Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.