As I Hurtled Through Space, One Thought

It Was The Time Of The Cold War And So There Were Was A Lot Of Pressure On The - To Get Going And The Russians Were Claiming That They Were - Soviets Were Claiming They Were Ahead Of Us In Technology. And So It Was Against That Backdrop That The Early Space Flights Took Off.

Zero G And I Feel Fine.

The Most Important Thing We Can Do Is Inspire Young Minds And To Advance The Kind Of Science, Math And Technology Education That Will Help Youngsters Take Us To The Next Phase Of Space Travel.

I Suppose The One Quality In An Astronaut More Powerful Than Any Other Is Curiosity. They Have To Get Some Place Nobody's Ever Been.

We Used To Joke About Canned Men, Putting People In A Can And Seeing How Far You Can Send Them And Bring Them Back. That's Not The Purpose Of This Program... Space Is A Laboratory, And We Go Into It To Work And Learn The New.