Sally Ride Quotes

My Background Is In Physics, So I Was The Mission Specialist, Who Is Sort Of Like The Flight Engineer On An Airplane.

You Know, I Go Around The Country A Lot.

It Takes A Few Years To Prepare For A Space Mission.

The Most Anxious Time Was During Launch, Just Because That Is So Dramatic.

I Haven't Written My Memoirs Or Let The Television Movie Be Made About My Life.

I Had Both Male And Female Heroes.

Different Astronauts Sleep In Different Ways.

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.

On A Standard Space Shuttle Crew, Two Of The Astronauts Have A Test Pilot Background - The Commander And The Pilot.

For Quite Some Time, Women At Nasa Only Had Scientific Backgrounds.

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. Whether It's Going To Be A Consortium Or One Entity Remains To Be Seen. I Could Be Wrong. I Could Be One Of The Old Fogies! Rocket Science Is Tough, And Rockets Have A Way Of Failing. It Happens. A Company Has To Be Willing To Bear The Risk Of Its Rocket Failing. It's A Very Large Capital Investment.

It Was Hard To Become An Astronaut. Not Anywhere Near As Much Physical Training As People Imagine, But A Lot Of Mental Training, A Lot Of Learning. You Have To Learn Everything There Is To Know About The Space Shuttle And Everything You Are Going To Be Doing, And Everything You Need To Know If Something Goes Wrong, And Then Once You Have Learned It All, You Have To Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice Until Everything Is Second Nature, So It's A Very, Very Difficult Training, And It Takes Years.