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.

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

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

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

I was 8 when we landed on the moon. I was so into the space program as a kid. Eventually, I realized it was very unlikely that a Mexican kid in the early '70s was going to be an astronaut.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.