Sally ride
One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
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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.
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Take me to the river My soul is looking for a word from God Ooh, God Like a rose in the cold, will I rise? I'm packing my space suit And I'm taking my shit and moving to the moon Where there no rules...
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
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I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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