I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college. Sally Ride More Quotes by Sally Ride More Quotes From Sally Ride I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals. Sally Ride bad-assgoalorder If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys. Sally Ride girlwantboys Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people. Sally Ride ablesecretpeople The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that. Sally Ride advicetryinggiving 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 womencoupleyears I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see. Sally Ride bad-assgirljobs All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. Sally Ride adventurehistorytravel The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is. Sally Ride appreciateperspectiveviews The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter. Sally Ride biggerstarslooks There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences. Sally Ride girlencouragementopportunity 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 curiositynaturalfun I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important. Sally Ride bad-assimportantthinking Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration. Sally Ride spacekidslying Anything from making a mistake on an experiment that would ruin some scientist on earth's experiment - career, potentially - to doing something wrong with the satellite that a country was depending on for its communications, to making some mistake that could actually cost you and the crew either a mission or your lives. So there is a lot of pressure that's put on every astronaut to just make sure that he or she understands exactly what to do, exactly when to do it, and is trained and prepared to carry it out. Sally Ride communicationmistakecountry When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. Sally Ride spacesittingwaiting When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person. Sally Ride bad-assdistanceused 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 girlencouragementteacher We need to make science cool again. Sally Ride needs 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 pushing-backmarsstudy I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now. Sally Ride shouldtalkingpeople
