We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!

The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.