When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. Sally Ride More Quotes by Sally Ride More Quotes From Sally Ride The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life. Sally Ride space fun facts 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 growing-up girl thinking You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it. Sally Ride hard-times tragedy would-be The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire. Sally Ride light fire clouds I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do. Sally Ride space parent remember I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into. Sally Ride new-interesting opportunity interesting Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. Sally Ride player kings hero It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them. Sally Ride growing-up girl real Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way! Sally Ride girl ocean stars The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the whole earth like that big blue marble that was made famous by the flights that went to the moon. But the shuttle is much, much closer than those astronauts were. So we don't see the whole planet, the whole ball at once, we just see parts of it. Sally Ride moon views blue I have been a bit of a risk-taker all my life. Sally Ride bits has-beens risk 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 bad-ass space people Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space. Sally Ride space responsibility special Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming. Sally Ride future moon thinking It's too bad our society isn't further along. Sally Ride our-society I did not come to NASA to make history. Sally Ride nasa Weightless is a great equalizer. Sally Ride ass equalizer bad-ass If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no. Sally Ride space hands years 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 t-shirt clothes space No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. Sally Ride risk space thinking
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