“My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is s...” — Sally Ride Quote

“My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.”

“I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.”

“For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.”

“On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.”

“I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for 'Airplane!' for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, 'I don't like this kind of comedy.'”