American - Astronaut | May 26, 1951 - July 23, 2012
The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
Sally Ride
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Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
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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 things that had gone wrong.
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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 is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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 view, I'm proud to be a role model!
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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