For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
I had both male and female heroes.
Weightless is a great equalizer.
The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is.
I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.