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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. ↗

— Sally Ride

#anytime #done #familiar #go #great

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. ↗

— Sally Ride

#astronauts #high-risk #i #i think #most

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

— Sally Ride

#decided #i #science

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

— Sally Ride

#astronauts #before #couple #flight #most

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do. ↗

— Sally Ride

#anxious #astronauts #because #excited #explosion

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 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 women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming. ↗

— Sally Ride

#coming #had #i #i think #movement

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. ↗

— Sally Ride

#during #i #into #itself #mission