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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.

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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.

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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

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On both of my flights, everything went very well.

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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Astronaut

Born: May 26th, 1951

Died: July 23rd, 2012

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