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

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

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

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at this beautiful spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

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

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.