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

No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

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.

Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

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?

Every shuttle mission's been successful.