Space is going to be commonplace.

I touch the future. I teach.

I touch the future. I teach.

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

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.

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.

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.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.