It Took Me A Long Time To

The Space Shuttle Will Stop Directly Below The Space Station And Sergei And I Will Be Looking Out Two Different Windows Looking Straight Down At The Space Shuttle.

I Never Made A Career Decision Based Solely On My Desire To Be An Astronaut. I Attended The Naval Academy Because I Wanted To Be A Navy Pilot. I Majored In Math Because Math Had Always Come Pretty Easily To Me And I Liked It.

Even With Only Two People On Board, Where Maintenance Is A Large Piece Of Our Working Day, We Still Have Time To Do Scientific Research. We Have To Be Ready To Support Those Shuttle Visits In A Lot Of Different Ways.

We're Going To Be Focusing Our Science On Things That Will Take Us Farther And Longer Into Space. For Many Of Those Experiments, The Crew Members Are Human Guinea Pigs, Which Is Fine; That's Part Of My Job. I Don't Mind Being A Human Guinea Pig.

Every Day, We Get A Little Bit Closer To The Kind Of Expertise And The Kind Of Experience We're Going To Need To Go There. I'd Love To Be The Guy Walking On Mars.