3 December 2020 Sally Ride For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
3 December 2020 Sally Ride Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.
3 December 2020 Sally Ride For whatever reason, I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
3 December 2020 Sally Ride I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
3 December 2020 Sally Ride The experience of being in space didn’t change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
3 December 2020 Sally Ride I liked math – that was my favorite subject – and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
3 December 2020 Sally Ride The food isn’t too bad. It’s very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
3 December 2020 Sally Ride 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.
