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Science Quote by Sally Ride

“Women make up only 25 percent of the science, engineering and technology workforce... We are delighted to be working with NASA Ames to give Silicon Valley area girls a chance to explore and develop their potential in science at an age when many begin to drift away from their natural interest.” quote by Sally Ride — Download Open image

“Women make up only 25 percent of the science, engineering and technology workforce... We are delighted to be working with NASA Ames to give Silicon Valley area girls a chance to explore and develop their potential in science at an age when many begin to drift away from their natural interest.”

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

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You know, I go around the country a lot.

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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 something wrong with the satellite that a country was depending on for its communications, to making some mistake that could actually cost you and the crew either a mission or your lives. So there is a lot of…

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

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I don't have any nicknames.

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