I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

Every shuttle mission's been successful.

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 can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.