All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

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

It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

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