Top 64 Quotes by Sally Ride

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

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

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

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.

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

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.

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.

On both of my flights, everything went very well.