It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
Sally RideI think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!
Sally RideI love the John Glenn model... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send me to Mars.
Sally RideAstronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming.
Sally Ride