I Love The John Glenn

I Think Eventually Private Enterprise Will Be Able To Send People Into Orbit, But I Suspect Initially It's Going To Have To Be With Nasa's Help.

Anything From Making A Mistake On An Experiment That Would Ruin Some Scientist On Earth's Experiment - Career, Potentially - To Doing Something Wrong With The Satellite That A Country Was Depending On For Its Communications, To Making Some Mistake That Could Actually Cost You And The Crew Either A Mission Or Your Lives. So There Is A Lot Of Pressure That's Put On Every Astronaut To Just Make Sure That He Or She Understands Exactly What To Do, Exactly When To Do It, And Is Trained And Prepared To Carry It Out.

All Adventures, Especially Into New Territory, Are Scary.

For A Long Time, Society Put Obstacles In The Way Of Women Who Wanted To Enter The Sciences.

The Fact That I Was Going To Be The First American Woman To Go Into Space Carried Huge Expectations Along With It.