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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now. ↗

— Sally Ride

#life #not talking #now #people #see

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. ↗

— Sally Ride

#background #engineer #flight #i #like

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

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program. ↗

— Sally Ride

#elementary school #even #high #i #interested

It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#had #i #long #sex #since

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. ↗

— Sally Ride

#favorite #i #interested #liked #math

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. ↗

— Sally Ride

#billie #hero #i #jean #king

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 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