Space is going to be commonplace.

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!

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.

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.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Imagine a history teacher making history.