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Sally Ride Quotes

It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

– Sally Ride

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

– Sally Ride

When you’re getting ready to launch into space, you’re sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

– Sally Ride

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

– Sally Ride

The stars don’t look bigger, but they do look brighter.

– Sally Ride

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

– Sally Ride

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren’t familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

– Sally Ride

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

– 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

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

– Sally Ride

NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts – we wear those a lot – and NASA T-shirts.

– Sally Ride

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

– Sally Ride

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

– Sally Ride

I don’t have any nicknames.

– 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 that point of view, I’m proud to be a role model!

– Sally Ride

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

– Sally Ride

It’s easy to sleep floating around – it’s very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don’t float into somebody or something!

– Sally Ride

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.

– Sally Ride

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

– Sally Ride

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

– Sally Ride

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.

– 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 up with a method. It’s delving in.

– Sally Ride

When the space shuttle’s engines cut off, and you’re finally in space, in orbit, weightless… I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that’s when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

– Sally Ride

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

– Sally Ride

I liked math – that was my favorite subject – and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

– Sally Ride

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background – the commander and the pilot.

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

– Sally Ride

The view of Earth is spectacular.

– Sally Ride

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

– Sally Ride

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

– Sally Ride

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