When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?
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It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
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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!
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The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
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We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.
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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.
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I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.
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I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.
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If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.
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Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.
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