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.

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

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.

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