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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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"My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane."
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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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"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."
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"So I decided on science when I was in college."
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"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."
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"The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic."
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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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"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
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"I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle."
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