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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

The view of Earth is spectacular.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.