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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
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When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.
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There might be very primitive life in our solar system - single-cell animals, that sort of thing. We may know the answer to that in five or ten years. There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars. But we won't know about that for a long time.
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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission. It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. 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.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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