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.

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

I did not come to NASA to make history.