There's A Lot Of Different Things That

It's Such A Long Mission And We Get To Spend So Much Time In Space... We're Doing Such Exciting Research. And I Don't Want To Overemphasize The Life Science Research, But As A Physician The Life Science Research That We're Doing Is Extremely Exciting.

I Can't Think Of Anything Specific Growing Up That Pointed Me Toward Nasa At All. I Was Interested In The Moon Landings Just About The Same As Everyone Else Of My Generation. But I Never Really Thought About Being An Astronaut Or Working In Space Myself.

Other Than Motherhood, The Eight Years That I Spent At The University Of Wisconsin, Madison, I Have Incredibly Fond Memories Of. It's A Beautiful Place, With Four Seasons Up In Wisconsin. And Really Wonderful People.

Everyone That I've Talked To Who's Been To Space Has Thoroughly Enjoyed The Experience, And What You Often Hear Them Say Is: It Was Great, But We Just Had To Come Home.

Things Are Going Very Smoothly. As Expected, There Are Some Minor Glitches, And The Eight Minutes That It Took Us To Get To Orbit, We Trained Months And Months For, And Didn't Have To Use Any Of That Preparation, Other Than Being Aware And Ready.