#nasa

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#always #am #dreamed #flight #go

I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

#career #come #could #field #going

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#epiphany #expressed #flying #i #interest

The review committee has left it to NASA to determine the scope of these alleged incidents. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#committee #determine #incidents #left #nasa

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

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same. ↗

— Sally Ride

#even #launch #nasa #practice #same

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 think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help. ↗

— Sally Ride

#enterprise #eventually #going #help #i

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. ↗

— Sally Ride

#choose #clothes #like #lot #nasa