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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. "

" The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. "

" 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. "

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

" But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. "

" 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! "

" All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet. "

" The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience. "

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

" I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college. "

" I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now. "

" I did not come to NASA to make history. "

" 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. "

" We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. "

" 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. "

" For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. "

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

" After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. "

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