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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
- Sally Ride
#Different Ways
#Different
#Sleep
#Ways
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
#Bad
#Days
#Early
#Food
#Space
I had both male and female heroes.
- Sally Ride
#Both
#Female
#Had
#Heroes
#Male
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
- Sally Ride
#Flight
#Floating
#Just
#Middle
#Space
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
#Fix
#Safety
#Space
#Time
#Wrong
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
- Sally Ride
#Astronomy
#Physical
#Science
#Subject
It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
- Sally Ride
#Comfortable
#Easy
#Floating
#Sleep
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
- Sally Ride
#Earth
#Just
#Little Bit
#Little
#Planets
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
- Sally Ride
#Crew
#Pilot
#Space
#Test
#Two
One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
- Sally Ride
#Everyone
#One Thing
#Share
#Space
#Thing
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
#Choose
#Clothes
#Space
#Wear
#Whatever
My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
- Sally Ride
#Ahead
#Great
#Lifestyle
#Me
#Parents
I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
- Sally Ride
#Know
#Love
#People
#Space
#Understand
I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
- Sally Ride
#Life
#People
#See
#Start
#Why
When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
- Sally Ride
#Chance
#Remember
#Space
#View
#Window
But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
- Sally Ride
#Down
#Earth
#Looking
#Window
#Working
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
- Sally Ride
#Me
#Parents
#Reason
#Science
#Teacher
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
- Sally Ride
#Long Time
#Long
#Obstacles
#Society
#Time
#Women
The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
- Sally Ride
#Coming
#Movement
#Think
#Way
#Women
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.
- Sally Ride
#Excited
#Launch
#Ready
#Space
#Wrong
I did not come to NASA to make history.
- Sally Ride
#Come
#Did
#History
#Make
#NASA
Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
- Sally Ride
#Being Human
#Knowledge
#Life
#Universe
I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!
- Sally Ride
#Important
#Life
#View
#Walk
#Women
The view of Earth is spectacular.
- Sally Ride
#Earth
#Nature
#Spectacular
#View
Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
- Sally Ride
#Rocket
#Science
#Space
#Tough
#Way
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
- Sally Ride
#Big
#Launch
#Ready
#Space
#Waiting
The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
- Sally Ride
#Bigger
#Brighter
#Look
#Space
#Stars
Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
- Sally Ride
#Curiosity
#Fun
#Posing
#Process
#Science
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
- Sally Ride
#Experience
#New
#Scary
#Territory
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