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.

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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 cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

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.