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sally wright is famous of course

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as the first american woman to fly in

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space

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as the first female astronaut

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but to me

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and to all of us in her astronaut class

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many of whom are here today

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she was just sally a very bright very

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quiet

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and very determined young woman

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like another famous astronaut who left

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us this year neil armstrong sally was a

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very private person

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who refused to cash in on her fame

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she handled the attention and the

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pressure with grace and dignity

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and all as all the first six women did

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sally always took her responsibility as

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a role model for millions of young girls

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quite seriously

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and for that i'm immensely grateful

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we had dinner last night with our

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six-year-old

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twin granddaughters abby and anna

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and they informed me that they were

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studying space in their first grade this

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week

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and they told me about neil armstrong

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and sally wright

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for some reason

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abby had trouble pronouncing neil

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armstrong's name she thought that was

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one name neil armstrong

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but they had no trouble pronouncing

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sally ride's name

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anna asked me if i'd ever met neil

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armstrong or sally wright

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when i said i had she said i was very

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lucky

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someday when they're old enough to

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understand i'll explain just how lucky i

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was

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and indeed how fortunate our nation has

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been

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to have sally among us

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leading the way and setting the example

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for generations of young people

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you know back in 1978

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obviously what caught my attention when

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that class was uh was announced was it

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was the first class with women and

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minorities and

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really

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kind of opened up a whole new era in the

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astronaut core

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like many other women about my age at

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that time it was a hugely important

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milestone to find that there was a

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career

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that was now open to women that had been

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closed before

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and so for sally and judy and kathy and

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three others who are here with us today

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shannon ray and anna

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they they made news across the country

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and all six of them really inspired many

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many women since then

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one of the key things she did

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was starting sally ride science

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uh we still have a problem in this

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country of trying to inspire

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uh young women

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to be interested in technical things

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like math and science and engineering

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and i believe that uh sally's efforts

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will be uh probably long remembered um

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more so of more importance than actually

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being on the first flight but being on

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the first flight allowed her to have the

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credibility to do that

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sally's life was cut too short but she

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made

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her mark on this earth she for gender

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for the

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and she'll ever forever be remembered

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for that

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and so we gather on this warm summer day

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in this space surrounded by

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generations of heroes

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with you we hold up sally as one of your

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own

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as she was ours

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with you we mourn her untimely loss

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with you we say goodbye

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and we celebrate her life which was

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thank you

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this is

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we have uh

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sally's sister and some of the family

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members if they have any words we'll put

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them on the horn right here for real

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quick

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yeah and i have a couple words first and

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foremost to say hey uh you know today's

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a special day a good remembrance of

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sally who uh paved the way for so many

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of us

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i don't think i would be here um without

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her having done the things she did so we

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press the button

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that's really nice of you to say and it

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looks like you're having as much fun as

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sally had from what i

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i'm

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sure they were wonderful she was a

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wonderful personality unfortunately i

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only had the

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opportunity to meet her sort of from a

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distance watching her talk to a bunch of

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kids a very dynamic amazing personality

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that got so many of us in the program

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today and like i said i wouldn't be up

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here for a second time in space me and

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aki enjoying this wonderful space

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station without people you know like her

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and her specifically you know inspiring

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us to uh to take on this type of a

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profession and particularly at the time

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when you know there wasn't very many

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women out there doing this type of stuff

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um she really made the made us think

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that we can do anything we want to do

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thank you so much for saying that and

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you know i've got my kids here and

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and they they really appreciate these

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stories that they've heard in the last

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day or two about

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about sally and we appreciate it and we

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have a little we have a little something

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for you hang on okay everybody

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happy birthday to you

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happy birthday dear funny

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that's awesome and you guys aren't

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supposed to know that nobody's supposed

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to know that i i thought when we came to

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space we reversed aging and so we didn't

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really have birth that we were getting