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

#felt #good #good job #honored #i

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

#be careful #careful #comfortable #easy #float

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

— Sally Ride

#brighter #look #stars

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

— Sally Ride

#earth #i #looking #usually #window

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

— Sally Ride

#collect #hiking #i #i do #lot

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now. ↗

— Sally Ride

#life #not talking #now #people #see

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

— Sally Ride

#background #engineer #flight #i #like

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

#after #challenger #fix #gone #had

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program. ↗

— Sally Ride

#elementary school #even #high #i #interested

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. ↗

— Sally Ride

#especially #into #new #new territory #scary