But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.
I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.
I always wanted to be a pilot.
I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.
Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot.