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Sally Ride

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

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

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"But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program."
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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."
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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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"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."
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"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
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"Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight."
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"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."
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"The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic."
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"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
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"So I decided on science when I was in college."
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