I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

I love the John Glenn model... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send me to Mars.

It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.

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.

The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life.