Sally Ride

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it. ↗

— Sally Ride

#anytime #done #familiar #go #great

NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts. ↗

— Sally Ride

#choose #clothes #like #lot #nasa

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. ↗

— Sally Ride

#astronauts #high-risk #i #i think #most

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. ↗

— Sally Ride

#background #commander #crew #pilot #shuttle

On both of my flights, everything went very well. ↗

— Sally Ride

#everything #flights #very #well #went

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight. ↗

— Sally Ride

#crew #flight #once #prepare #same

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure. ↗

— Sally Ride

#composure #else #everyone #i #office

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

— Sally Ride

#rocket #rocket science #rockets #science #tough

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. ↗

— Sally Ride

#curiosity #delving #fun #investigating #method

So I decided on science when I was in college. ↗

— Sally Ride

#decided #i #science