Sally Ride Quotes

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encoura...

The view of Earth is spectacular.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space progr...

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that exp...

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical ...

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investi...

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

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

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

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of li...

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical...

I did not come to NASA to make history.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

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

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it t...

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.