Sally Ride Quotes About Flight

Quotes about: Flight

• The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life.

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  Fun, Space, Facts

• I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see.

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  Girl, Jobs, Bad Ass

• My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

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  Airplane, Flight, Physics

• There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted on a space flight, or the satellites that are carried up, the work that's to be done, is important and expensive work, and you are up there for a week or two on a Space Shuttle flight. The country has invested a lot of money in you and your training, and the Space Shuttle and everything that's in it, and you have to do things correctly. You can't make a mistake during that week or two that you're in space.

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  Country, Mistake, Space Flight

  "Astronaut Hall of Fame". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2006.

• The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the whole earth like that big blue marble that was made famous by the flights that went to the moon. But the shuttle is much, much closer than those astronauts were. So we don't see the whole planet, the whole ball at once, we just see parts of it.

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  Moon, Blue, Views

  Source: www.dannyskidspage.com

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

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  Space, Floating, Flight

• On both of my flights, everything went very well.

  Sally Ride

  Flight, Wells

• So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

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  Couple, Years, Flight

  Scholastic's Web site Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

• 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.

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  Years, Together, Flight

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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