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

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.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming.