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Sally Ride

" I had both male and female heroes. "

Heroes

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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. "

Class , Men

" 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. "

Sleep , Open

" 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. "

Wrong , First

" So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. "

Year

" So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth. "

Earth

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

Science , College

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

Science , College

" 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. "

Food , Space

" Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle. "

Time

" 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. "

Time

" The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic. "

Time

" 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. "

Pressure , Wrong

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