Other Than Motherhood, The Eight Years That

The Navy's Paid For You To Go Through School, And Then They Need Doctors To Go Out And Take Care Of People Who Are In Various Different Parts Of The World. I Decided To Pay Back My Time First As An Undersea Medical Officer. I Was Stationed In Scotland.

I Can't Think Of Anything Specific Growing Up That Pointed Me Toward Nasa At All. I Was Interested In The Moon Landings Just About The Same As Everyone Else Of My Generation. But I Never Really Thought About Being An Astronaut Or Working In Space Myself.

This Has Been A Great Experience For Me. The First Couple Of Days You Don't Always Feel Too Well. You Adjust To The Fluid Shifting, How To Fly Through Space Without Hitting Things Or Anybody Else. But Then You Get In A Groove.

The Microgravity Or The Very, Very Low Amount Of Gravity That We Have Up In Space Forces Some Changes In Different Processes. It Forces Changes In Us As Human Beings.

There's A Lot Of Different Things That We Do During Life That Could Personally Harm Us And I Choose Not To Stop Doing Those Things.