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    After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

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    Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming.

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    Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

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    But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

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    But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

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    Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

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    Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

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    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. Whether it's going to be a consortium or one entity remains to be seen. I could be wrong. I could be one of the old fogies! Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. It happens. A company has to be willing to bear the risk of its rocket failing. It's a very large capital investment.

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    Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way!

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    For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

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    For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

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    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.

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    I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

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    I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

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    I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

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    I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.

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    If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no.

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    If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

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    I had both male and female heroes.

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    I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

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    I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

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    I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

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    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.

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    I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see.

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    I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

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    I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.

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    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.

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    I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

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    I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.

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    It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

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    It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

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    It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

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    It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

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    It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

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    It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.

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    It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental training, a lot of learning. You have to learn everything there is to know about the Space Shuttle and everything you are going to be doing, and everything you need to know if something goes wrong, and then once you have learned it all, you have to practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice until everything is second nature, so it's a very, very difficult training, and it takes years.

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    I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

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    I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

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    I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

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    I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.

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

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    My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

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    NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.

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    No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

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    On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

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    Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

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    One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

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    Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

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    Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

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    Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.