Sally Ride quotes - page 2

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)

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

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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.

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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

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I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. (Sally Ride)

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

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So I decided on science when I was in college.

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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

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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.

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The view of Earth is spectacular. The shuttle is pretty close to Earth. It only flies between 200 and 350 miles above Earth. So it's really pretty close. So we don't see the whole planet, like the astronauts who went to the moon did. So we can see much more detail. We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. It's just a lot of fun and very interesting to look out the window.

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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, there's not very much you can do.

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I don't have any nicknames.

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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program. (Sally Ride)

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

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Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

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You know, I go around the country a lot.

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I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

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Occupation: American Astronaut
Born: May 26, 1951
Died: July 23, 2012
Quotes count: 67
Wikipedia: Sally Ride

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