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• ‟ The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

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• ‟ Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.

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• ‟ I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

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• ‟ When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.

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• ‟ Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.

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• ‟ I always knew I'd go to space.

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• ‟ I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

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• ‟ Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

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• ‟ In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.

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• ‟ For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.

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• ‟ When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

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• ‟ People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.

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• ‟ The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

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• ‟ I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.

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• ‟ I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves as a part of space travel; we need to see more inclusiveness.

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