And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.
To fly into Moscow was a joy. I was trying to understand what people were thinking and how to earn money. In the end, I stayed.
There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.
I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.
I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.
I always knew I'd go to space.
After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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