Best Sally Ride Sayings
- But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. Down
- I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps. Collect
- I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now. Life
- My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. Airplane
- Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. Failing
- 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… Accident
- But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program. Elementary
- I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. Astronomy
- So I decided on science when I was in college. College
- The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic. Anxious
- One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure. Astronaut
- So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth. Bit
- So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. Assigned
- Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little… Almost Like
- The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all… All
- The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. Accident
- The view of Earth is spectacular. Earth
- Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. Arm
- Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle. Awful
- When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. Big
- 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… Every Walk
- 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… Ahead
- Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole… Assigned
- So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in… Anxious
- 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… Almost Part