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01Undated

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

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02Undated

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

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03Undated

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

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04Undated

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

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05Undated

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

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06Undated

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

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07Undated

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

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08Undated

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

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09Undated

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

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10Undated

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

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11Undated

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

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12Undated

I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

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13Undated

The view of Earth is spectacular.

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14Undated

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.

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15Undated

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

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16Undated

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

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17Undated

I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

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18Undated

I did not come to NASA to make history.

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19Undated

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.

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20Undated

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

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21Undated

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

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