Weightless is a great equalizer.

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the whole earth like that big blue marble that was made famous by the flights that went to the moon. But the shuttle is much, much closer than those astronauts were. So we don't see the whole planet, the whole ball at once, we just see parts of it.

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

The view of Earth is spectacular.