Your imagination can create a reality
There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.
Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.
In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U. S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program.
I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know.
I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.
The Lord is our God, our judge, and our king, and He shall reign over us.
My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new.