#space

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 takes a few years to prepare for a space mission. ↗

— Sally Ride

#mission #prepare #space #takes #years

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

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

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. ↗

— Sally Ride

#background #commander #crew #pilot #shuttle

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

— Sally Ride

#before #better #challenger #rocket #safer

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

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#between #earlier #i #paintings #picture

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#doubling #i #money #raise #space