Sally Ride Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Sally Ride Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    Different astronauts sleep in different ways. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    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. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    I don't have any nicknames. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    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. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    I had both male and female heroes. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 16
    I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 17
    It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 19
    It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something! Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
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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. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 21
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 22
    No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    On both of my flights, everything went very well. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
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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. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
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    So I decided on science when I was in college. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
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    So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 28
    So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
  • 30
    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. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 31
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 32
    The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 33
    The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 34
    The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 35
    The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 36
    The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
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    The view of Earth is spectacular. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 38
    Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 39
    We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 40
    Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 41
    When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF
  • 42
    Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space. Sally Ride | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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