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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
~ Sally Ride
Assigned
Astronauts
Before
Couple
Flight
Most
Years
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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
About
Anxious
Astronauts
Because
Excited
Explosion
First
Getting
Goes
Launch
Lift
Most
Much
Off
Ready
Seconds
Something
Very
Worried
Wrong
You
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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.
~ Sally Ride
Almost
Astronauts
Bedroom
Beds
Close
Close-Up
Crawl
Like
Little
Open
Sleep
Some
Sort
Then
Up
You
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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
Astronaut
Astronauts
Came
Class
Had
Me
Men
Those
Used
Very
Were
Who
Women
Working
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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
Astronauts
Ate
Bad
Days
Different
Early
Early Days
Food
Program
Space
Space Program
Too
Very
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
~ Sally Ride
Anxious
Because
Dramatic
Just
Just Because
Launch
Most
Time
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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
Astronauts
Case
Emergency
Goes
Helps
Launch
Loss
Off
Parachute
Pressure
Protect
Shuttle
Something
Suit
Suits
Way
Wrong
You
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
~ Sally Ride
Accident
Before
Better
Challenger
Rocket
Safer
Shuttle
Space
Space Shuttle
Than
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The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
~ Sally Ride
Bigger
Brighter
Look
Stars
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
~ Sally Ride
Earth
Spectacular
View
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
~ Sally Ride
Arm
Itself
Mission
Orbit
Release
Robot
Satellite
Shuttle
Space
Then
Used
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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
Cities
Day
Dump
Form
Hurricanes
Night
Ocean
Rivers
See
Watch
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
~ Sally Ride
Awful
Awful Lot
Busy
Doing
Experiments
Lot
Our
Our Time
Shuttle
Spend
Time
Up
Very
Well
Working
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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
~ Sally Ride
Big
Explosion
Getting
Happen
Launch
Ready
Sitting
Space
Waiting
You
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
~ Sally Ride
American
American Woman
Be The First
Did
Feel
First
Responsibility
Space
Special
Woman
Yes
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Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.
~ Shannon Lucid
Ahead
Aligned
All My Life
Any
Attention
Basically
Because
Been
Could
Did
Female
Guess
Just
Life
My Life
Pay
Ready
Stars
Then
You
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I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.
~ Shannon Lucid
Admit
Astronauts
I Think
Just
Men
Over
People
Performed
Think
Want
Well
Whether
Women
Years
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I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight.
~ Shannon Lucid
After
Away
Come
Crew
Flight
Flights
Had
Here
Interactions
Most
New
People
Remember
Satisfying
Sort
Take
Tell
Things
Those
Try
Whatever
You
Your
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I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
~ Shannon Lucid
About
Back
Degree
Desperate
Far
Females
Got
Graduate
Graduate School
Know
Open
Really
Remember
School
Then
Very
Want
Were
Words
You
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If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.
~ Shannon Lucid
Doubt
Gratifying
I Think
Kids
Look
Most
Thing
Think
Whole
Without
You
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