Sally Ride

• "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.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "I did not come to NASA to make history.“
• "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.“
• "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.“
• "I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.“
• "So I decided on science when I was in college.“
• "I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.“
• "Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.“
• "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.“
• "For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.“
• "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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