What Are We Doing Here? We're Reaching

The President Felt That It Was Important To Send An Ordinary Citizen To Experience The Excitement Of Space Travel As A Representative For All Americans.

Space Is For Everybody. It's Not Just For A Few People In Science Or Math, Or For A Select Group Of Astronauts. That's Our New Frontier Out There, And It's Everybody's Business To Know About Space.

I Cannot Join The Space Program And Restart My Life As An Astronaut, But This Opportunity To Connect My Abilities As An Educator With My Interests In History And Space Is A Unique Opportunity To Fulfill My Early Fantasies.

My Job In Space Will Be To Observe And Write A Journal. I Am Also Going To Be Teaching A Class For Students On Earth About Life In Space And On The Space Shuttle And Conducting Experiments.

If I Can Get Some Student Interested In Science, If I Can Show Members Of The General Public What's Going On Up There In The Space Program, Then My Job's Been Done.