“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.” PeopleWayHelpingHappensAbleCompanyFailingRiskWillingBearsToughRemainsInvestmentEnterpriseSuspectsEntityRocketsNasaOrbitPrivate EnterpriseRocket ScienceCapital Investment Author:Sally Ride
“After 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.” SpaceGoneSafetyAccidentsNasaSpace ShuttleWorkplace SafetyShuttle ProgramSpace Shuttle Challenger Author:Sally Ride
“Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.” TryingPracticeNasaSimulate Author:Sally Ride
“For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.” BackgroundsNasa Author:Sally Ride
“I think 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.” PeopleThinkingHelpingAbleEnterpriseSuspectsNasaOrbitPrivate Enterprise Author:Sally Ride
“NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.” SpaceClothesShirtsT ShirtNasaShorts Author:Sally Ride
“I 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.” IfsYearsMayModelsAssMarsBad AssNasa Author:Sally Ride
