Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
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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.
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It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
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