QuoteQuest“When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Sally Ride
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Ride, Sally. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Sally Ride. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sally_Ride
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