In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.

It's a payoff to John Glenn for his support of (President) Clinton and also the NASA budget. NASA needs the publicity and they couldn't have picked a better guy to hype the space program.

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

NASA takes you to where your imagination has already been.

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.