When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

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!

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.

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

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.

Space is going to be commonplace.