Sally Ride Quotes
It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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.
I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.
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.
My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
