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Sally Ride
American
Astronaut
Born:
May 26
,
1951
Died:
Jul 23
,
2012
Astronauts
Life
Science
Space
Time
You
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Alan Shepard
Buzz Aldrin
Christa McAuliffe
Ellen Ochoa
Jim Lovell
John Glenn
Mae Jemison
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The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
Sally Ride
Stars
Look
Bigger
Brighter
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
Science
Natural
Investigating
Delving
Coming
Method
Questions
Up
Curiosity
Process
Fun
Posing
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
Life
Women
Walk
Girl
Important
Young
Every
Think
Point
Point Of View
Proud
Up
Model
Role
Role Model
Little
Young Women
Little Girls
View
Growing
Growing Up
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
Life
Knowledge
Will
Universe
Back
Mars
About
Magical
Something
Pushing
Part
Almost
Studying
How
Continue
Began
Human
Frontiers
Being
Whether
Being Human
Certain
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
Sally Ride
You
Waiting
Space
Big
Launch
Ready
Sitting
Getting
Happen
Explosion
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
Sally Ride
Space
Collect
Running
Hiking
Also
Lot
Stamps
Olympics
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
Sally Ride
Pilot
Space
Crew
Background
Astronauts
Test
Test Pilot
Commander
Space Shuttle
Standard
Shuttle
Two
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
You
Astronauts
Some
Open
Almost
Like
Sort
Bedroom
Beds
Up
Close
Close-Up
Crawl
Little
Then
Sleep
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
You
Somebody
Be Careful
Easy
Something
Comfortable
Around
Very
Float
Floating
Careful
Sleep
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Sally Ride
Secret
Reluctant
No Secret
Name
Been
Use
Things
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
Sally Ride
Life
Made
My Life
Television
Memoirs
About
Written
Movie
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
Sally Ride
Time
Women
Long
Long Time
Society
Way
Enter
Put
Obstacles
Sciences
Wanted
Who
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
Good
People
Good Job
Job
Important
Honored
Would
Would-Be
Knew
Felt
Very
Closely
Watching
There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
Sally Ride
Woman
Space
First
Enjoy
Going
Being
Aspects
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
Love
People
Space
Half
Other
Would
Someone
Know
Understand
Go
Discovered
Explain
Them
Why
Need
For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
Sally Ride
Time
Women
Backgrounds
Some
Only
Had
Scientific
NASA
Quite
Quite Some Time
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
Knowledge
You
Training
Before
Background
Detailed
Takes
Mission
Couple
Go
Years
Get
Just
Your
Need
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
Sally Ride
Space
Robot
Release
Arm
Mission
Itself
Orbit
Then
Used
Satellite
Shuttle
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
Time
Safety
Space
Accident
Gone
Had
Put
Wrong
NASA
Lot
Fix
Improve
Space Shuttle
After
Challenger
Things
Shuttle
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