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

— Sally Ride

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

— 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

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.

— 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

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride

The view of Earth is spectacular.

— Sally Ride

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

— Sally Ride