"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

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"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did."

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"For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences."

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"Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in."

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"Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing."

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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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