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

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

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

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.

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.

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