American - Astronaut | May 26, 1951 - July 23, 2012
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
Sally Ride
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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 you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
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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.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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