“When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.”

— Sally Ride

Scholastic interview (1998)
Context: When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. By sally ride. So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion — because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

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American physicist and astronaut 1951–2012

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