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If We Want Scientists And Engineers In The Future, We Should Be Cultivating The Girls As Much As The Boys.

The Best Advice I Can Give Anybody Is To Try To Understand Who You Are And What You Want To Do, And Don't Be Afraid To Go Down That Road And Do Whatever It Takes And Work As Hard As You Have To Work To Achieve That.

But Even In Elementary School And Junior High, I Was Very Interested In Space And In The Space Program.

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.

I've Discovered That Half The People Would Love To Go Into Space And There's No Need To Explain It To Them. The Other Half Can't Understand And I Couldn't Explain It To Them. If Someone Doesn't Know Why, I Can't Explain It.