So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from earth. — Sally Ride
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. — Sally Ride
I didn’t really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college. — Sally Ride
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps – space stamps and olympics stamps. — Sally Ride
I liked math – that was my favorite subject – and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. — Sally Ride
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. — Sally Ride
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. — Sally Ride
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the challenger accident. — Sally Ride
The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class – my class had 29 men and 6 women. — Sally Ride
Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds – compartments that you can open up and crawl into. — Sally Ride
So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion — Sally Ride
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. — Sally Ride