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Sally Ride

"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."

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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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"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."
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"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."
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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."
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"Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom."
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"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space."
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"The view of Earth is spectacular."
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