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.

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

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.

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

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 going to be commonplace.

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.