The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.