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• I don't have any nicknames.

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  Nicknames

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Parent, Done

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• The view of Earth is spectacular.

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  Views, Earth, Spectacular

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

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• Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming.

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  Future, Moon, Thinking

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• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

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  Ocean, Night, Cities

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

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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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  Space, Floating, Flight

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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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  Loss, Suits, Way

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• 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.

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  Clothes, Space, T Shirt

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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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  Thinking, Space, Risk

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

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  Being Human, Certain, Humans

  "Tip A Forty Of Tang For Pioneering Astronaut And All-Around Awesome Person Sally Ride" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. July 24, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Cutting, Views, Space

  "Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead". "All Things Considered", nhpr.org. July 23, 2012.

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• So I decided on science when I was in college.

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  College, Decided

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

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  Office, Astronaut, Share

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

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  College, Astronaut, Ends

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Space, Perspective

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• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

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  Earth, Window, Looking Down

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• 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

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• I had both male and female heroes.

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  Hero, Males, Female

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• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

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  Television, Made, Memoir

  "A Conversation With Sally Ride; Painful Questions From an Ex-astronaut" by Claudia Dreifus, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2003.

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

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  Years, Space, Missions

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

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• 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.

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• It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental training, a lot of learning. You have to learn everything there is to know about the Space Shuttle and everything you are going to be doing, and everything you need to know if something goes wrong, and then once you have learned it all, you have to practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice until everything is second nature, so it's a very, very difficult training, and it takes years.

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  Years, Practice, Space

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

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  Dramatic, Anxious

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• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

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  Sleep, Different, Way

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• It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

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  Names, Secret, Use

  "American Woman Who Shattered Space Ceiling" by Denise Grady, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2012.

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