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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

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

— Sally Ride

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On both of my flights, everything went very well. ↗

— Sally Ride

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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure. ↗

— Sally Ride

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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

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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

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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

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I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ↗

— Bill Veeck

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The view of Earth is spectacular. ↗

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

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