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“I did not come to NASA to make history.”

Sally Ride · History

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Sally Ride

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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Sally Ride

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.

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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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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.

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