If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.
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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.
NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.
This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.
You can do more science on the ground than you can in space for the same amount of money. But there is some science you can not do on the ground.
The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.
There is good science you can do in space. There is stuff there you cannot do on Earth and we can gain understanding from it.
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