It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.
Sally RideOn a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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