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Space Quotes by Sally Ride

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The view of Earth from the shuttle is described as spectacular, a blue marble that awe‑inspires. Ride talks about the high‑risk nature of space travel and the tough reality of rockets failing. She also looks ahead, noting that private companies may eventually send people to orbit, but early missions still need NASA’s help.

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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

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Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost…

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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a…

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“When you’re getting ready to launch into space, you’re sitting on a big explosion just waiting to happen.”

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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to…

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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

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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…

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When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating…

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I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The…

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Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really…

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It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young…

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If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand,…

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Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and…

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You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would…

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It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental…

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Anything from making a mistake on an experiment that would ruin some scientist on earth's experiment - career, potentially - to doing…

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The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they…

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There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted…

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Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with…

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The most important steps that I followed were studying math and science in school. I was always interested in physics and astronomy…

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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.

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

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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

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

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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those…

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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…

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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no…

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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the…

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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

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

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

I have been a bit of a risk-taker all my life.

The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the…

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

You know, I go around the country a lot.

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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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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!

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I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took…

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for…

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…