I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.
There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'
In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!
My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.