Sally Ride

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

So I decided on science when I was in college…

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process…

I liked math – that was my favorite subject – and I was very interested in astronomy…

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

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was…

For whatever reason, I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls. I…

The experience of being in space didn’t change my perspective of myself or of the…

I did not come to NASA to make history…

The food isn’t too bad. It’s very different from the food that the astronauts ate…

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you…