Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless...