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I don't have any nicknames.
Weightless is a great equalizer.
The view of Earth is spectacular.
I had both male and female heroes.
We need to make science cool again.
I did not come to NASA to make history.
You know, I go around the country a lot.
It's too bad our society isn't further along.
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
I have been a bit of a risk-taker all my life.
So I decided on science when I was in college.
On both of my flights, everything went very well.
It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.
I love the John Glenn model... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send me to Mars.
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.