Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

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• Sally Ride:

  But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

• Sally Ride:

  On both of my flights, everything went very well.

• Sally Ride:

  The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

• Sally Ride:

  Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

• Sally Ride:

  Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then c

• Sally Ride:

  It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don

• Sally Ride:

  The view of Earth is spectacular.

• Sally Ride:

  We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean

• Sally Ride:

  So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

• Sally Ride:

  The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.