I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
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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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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
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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.
