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.

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• Sally Ride:

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

• Sally Ride:

  I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

• Sally Ride:

  But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space prog

• Sally Ride:

  I had both male and female heroes.

• Sally Ride:

  Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

• Sally Ride:

  I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physica

• Sally Ride:

  I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term car

• Sally Ride:

  So I decided on science when I was in college.

• Sally Ride:

  I don't have any nicknames.

• Sally Ride:

  I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.