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.

The view of Earth is spectacular.

When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.

NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.

I don't have any nicknames.

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

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.