Sally Ride Quotes

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

Finally my dream came true in that there was a possibility that I could travel to the International Space Station. I've gone through the medicals and the training and now I'm officially, by the Russian Space Federation, a cosmonaut in training.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

I would like to do a movie in space, but I think it would be difficult to do it on location.

I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon.

So you're back from outer space.

I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.

Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station for 11 days. The entire crew did five space walks, of which I was involved with three of them. When you're doing a space walk, you always have a buddy with you. It's a very dangerous environment when you're doing a space walk.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon.