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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.
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
And during my flight, and the first 25 flights of the shuttle, astronauts just wore normal flight suits, not pressure suits.
And the early astronauts, John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, were heroes of mine as well.
Because I was a tennis player, Bi... (more Sally Ride quotes)
In 1987 & 88 she worked at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control.
She served as CAPCOM for STS-2 & STS-3, the second and third Space Shuttle flights.
She founded NASA’s Office of Exploration.
She received bachelor’s degrees in English and Physics from Stanford University.
She went to high school at Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles.... (more Sally Ride trivia)
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