"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen." — Sally Ride

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

I did not come to NASA to make history.