Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

#brighter #earth #i #just #little

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

— Sally Ride

#astronauts #before #couple #flight #most

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

#astronauts #bedroom #beds #close #compartments

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

#astronauts #came #class #had #me

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 #experience #had #i #life

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. ↗

— Sally Ride

#american #american woman #be the first #carried #expectations

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

#ate #bad #days #different #early

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

— Sally Ride

#because #dramatic #during #just #just because

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

#case #during #emergency #goes #helps

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

— Sally Ride

#before #better #challenger #rocket #safer