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Astronaut Quotes by Sally Ride
- 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…
- The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
- 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…
- Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
- No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
- On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
- I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
- One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
- So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
- Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little…
- The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all…
- So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in…
- The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect…
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