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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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