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

I did not come to NASA to make history.

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.

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.

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.