Sally Ride Quotes


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 Science 190
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. Sally Ride Adventures 108
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 Background 98
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth. Sally Ride Bit 93
The view of Earth is spectacular. Sally Ride Earth 86
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 Approve 85
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 Closely 84
I did not come to NASA to make history. Sally Ride History 81
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience. Sally Ride Change 79
The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women. Sally Ride Women 79
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program. Sally Ride Elementary 71
Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight. Sally Ride Assigned 64
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. Sally Ride Food 61
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 Science 61
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. Sally Ride Astronauts 58
The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming. Sally Ride Women 57
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. Sally Ride Assigned 57
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps. Sally Ride Collect 56
Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. Sally Ride Science 54
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. Sally Ride Science 50
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 Astronauts 50
So I decided on science when I was in college. Sally Ride Science 49
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. Sally Ride Accidents 48
I had both male and female heroes. Sally Ride Female 48
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. Sally Ride Accident 44
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space. Sally Ride American 44
Different astronauts sleep in different ways. Sally Ride Astronauts 42
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. Sally Ride Science 40
For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. Sally Ride Women 34
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. Sally Ride Accident 33
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. Sally Ride Society 33
It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission. Sally Ride Mission 32
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. Sally Ride Airplane 32
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. Sally Ride Billie 31
The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic. Sally Ride Anxious 29
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. Sally Ride Cities 29
On both of my flights, everything went very well. Sally Ride Flights 23
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. Sally Ride Almost 19
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. Sally Ride Deck 16

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