Quotes by : Sally Ride

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

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

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating.....

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared....

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life.....

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about....

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion....

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement....