Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help. Whether it's going to be a consortium or one entity remains to be seen. I could be wrong. I could be one of the old fogies! Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. It happens. A company has to be willing to bear the risk of its rocket failing. It's a very large capital investment.
Sally RideI liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
Sally RideWe can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
Sally RideAfter the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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