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

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• 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.

• Sally Ride:

  Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

• Sally Ride:

  I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very,