Sally Ride

We need to make science cool again.

— Sally Ride

I had both male and female heroes.

— Sally Ride

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

— Sally Ride

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

— Sally Ride

I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

— Sally Ride

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important…

— Sally Ride

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming…

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think…

— Sally Ride

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring…

— Sally Ride

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from…

— Sally Ride

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together…

— Sally Ride

I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear…

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge.…

— Sally Ride

Women make up only 25 percent of the science, engineering and technology workforce... We are delighted to be working with NASA Ames…

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

— Sally Ride

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

— Sally Ride

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

— Sally Ride

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

— Sally Ride

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

— Sally Ride