All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. — Sally Ride · Smartyfair

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

Sally Ride1951–2012 · astronaut · 1900s-2000s USASally Ride was a physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman to travel into space in 1983, aboard the space shuttle Challenger.4 quotes

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What turned up: Quotation displayed at the National Air and Space Museum; Documented in NASA History Division News & Notes, vol. 33, no. 3 (Fall 2016), p. 4; institutional quotation, not an original interview.
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