So I decided on science when I was in college.
From Sally Ride
I don't have any nicknames.
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
On both of my flights, everything went very well.
The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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