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One Thing I Probably Share With Everyone Else In The Astronaut Office Is Composure.

Everywhere I Go I Meet Girls And Boys Who Want To Be Astronauts And Explore Space, Or They Love The Ocean And Want To Be Oceanographers, Or They Love Animals And Want To Be Zoologists, Or They Love Designing Things And Want To Be Engineers. I Want To See Those Same Stars In Their Eyes In 10 Years And Know They Are On Their Way!

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.

I Can't Remember A Single Time [my Parents] Ever Told Me Not To Do Something I Wanted To Do.

I've Discovered That Half The People Would Love To Go Into Space And There's No Need To Explain It To Them. The Other Half Can't Understand And I Couldn't Explain It To Them. If Someone Doesn't Know Why, I Can't Explain It.