The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life.

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

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

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

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.

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

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.