It Takes A Few Years To Prepare

I Was Always Very Interested In Science, And I Knew That For Me, Science Was A Better Long-term Career Than Tennis.

My Background Is In Physics, So I Was The Mission Specialist, Who Is Sort Of Like The Flight Engineer On An Airplane.

For A Long Time, Society Put Obstacles In The Way Of Women Who Wanted To Enter The Sciences.

I Have Been A Bit Of A Risk-taker All My Life.

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.