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

I had both male and female heroes.

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

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.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

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