When You Can Feel That Close To

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.

When You're Getting Ready To Launch Into Space, You're Sitting On A Big Explosion Waiting To Happen.

But Even In Elementary School And Junior High, I Was Very Interested In Space And In The Space Program.

It's Too Bad Our Society Isn't Further Along.

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