Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

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

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.