Every shuttle mission's been successful.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.