For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

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