Even Though Nasa Tries To Simulate Launch,

There's A Huge Amount Of Pressure On Every Astronaut, Because When You Get Right Down To It, The Experiments That Are Conducted On A Space Flight, Or The Satellites That Are Carried Up, The Work That's To Be Done, Is Important And Expensive Work, And You Are Up There For A Week Or Two On A Space Shuttle Flight. The Country Has Invested A Lot Of Money In You And Your Training, And The Space Shuttle And Everything That's In It, And You Have To Do Things Correctly. You Can't Make A Mistake During That Week Or Two That You're In Space.

When You Can Feel That Close To Something You're Used To Seeing From This Great Distance, Well, It Changes A Person.

The Experience Of Being In Space Didn't Change My Perspective Of Myself Or Of The Planet Or Of Life. I Had No Spiritual Experience.

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

I Haven't Written My Memoirs Or Let The Television Movie Be Made About My Life.