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Sally Ride Quotes
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. - Sally Ride Quotes
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. - Sally Ride Quotes
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. - Sally Ride Quotes
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program. - Sally Ride Quotes
But when I wasnt working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. - Sally Ride Quotes
Different astronauts sleep in different ways. - Sally Ride Quotes
Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, its not the same - its not even close to the same. - Sally Ride Quotes
For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. - Sally Ride Quotes
I didnt really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college. - Sally Ride Quotes
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps. - Sally Ride Quotes
I dont have any nicknames. - Sally Ride Quotes
I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job. - Sally Ride Quotes
I had both male and female heroes. - Sally Ride Quotes
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. - Sally Ride Quotes
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. - Sally Ride Quotes
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. - Sally Ride Quotes
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. - Sally Ride Quotes
It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission. - Sally Ride Quotes
Its easy to sleep floating around - its very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you dont float into somebody or something! - Sally Ride Quotes
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. - Sally Ride Quotes
NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts. - Sally Ride Quotes
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. - Sally Ride Quotes
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. - Sally Ride Quotes
On both of my flights, everything went very well. - Sally Ride Quotes
Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight. - Sally Ride Quotes
So I decided on science when I was in college. - Sally Ride Quotes
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth. - Sally Ride Quotes
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. - Sally Ride Quotes
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, theres not very much you can do. - Sally Ride Quotes
Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom. - Sally Ride Quotes
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Accident Adventures After Because Billie Challenger Gone
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Safety Scary Shuttle Space Tennis That Things
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