“Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.”
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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.
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.
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.