#me

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. ↗

— Sally Ride

#long #long time #obstacles #put #sciences

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. ↗

— Sally Ride

#had #nasa #only #quite #scientific

I did not come to NASA to make history. ↗

— Sally Ride

#did #history #i #make #nasa

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

— Sally Ride

#haven #i #life #made #memoirs

I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it. ↗

— Sally Ride

#explain #go #half #i #into

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

— Sally Ride

#i #name #reluctant #secret #things

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

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in. ↗

— Sally Ride

#curiosity #delving #fun #investigating #method

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