Space is going to be commonplace.

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

It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school.

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 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.

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

Imagine a history teacher making history.