Sally Ride

"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."

- Sally Ride

"The view of Earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It’s a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is."

- Sally Ride

"Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people."

- Sally Ride

"There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields; girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences."

- Sally Ride

"I did not come to NASA to make history."

- 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."

- Sally Ride

"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary."

- Sally Ride

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

- Sally Ride

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

- Sally Ride

"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."

- Sally Ride