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- People
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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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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
- NASA
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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.
- Most
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
- Safety
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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.
- Better
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
- Decide
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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
- Both
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I had both male and female heroes.
- Favorite
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I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
- Better
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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.
- Decided
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
- Nicknames
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I don't have any nicknames.
- Lot
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
- Feel
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
- Important
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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.
- Men
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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
- Prepare
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
- Go
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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.
- Flight
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- Nov 07, 2020
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
- Like
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
On both of my flights, everything went very well.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
- Floating
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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
- Beds
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
- Clothes
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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.
- Days
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
- Nature
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
- Night
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
- Look
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The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dumb
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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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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I go around the country a lot.
- Help
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