Reach for the stars.

I touch the future. I teach.

It’s not the Olympics. It’s Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I’m part of.

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he’s got a real good sense of where everything’s gonna be in a few years.

Every shuttle mission’s been successful.

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.

I really don’t want to say goodbye to any of you people.

When I’m 60, maybe, I’ll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space.

What are we doing here? We’re reaching for the stars!