145 Quotes by Sally Ride

When you’re getting ready to launch into space, you’re sitting on a big explosion just waiting to happen.

Q: Dr. Ride, apart from the obvious differences, how do you assess the differences in men and women astronauts?A: Aside from the obvious differences, I don't think there are any.- Prime crew press conference, April 29, 1982

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.

I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

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

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.

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.