I love working at NASA, but the part that has been the most satisfying on a day-to-day basis, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute, has been working on board the space station. Even if I'm just cleaning the vents in the fans, it all is important.
I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.
I love Italian, Mexican, Thai. Something spicy.
My parents are the hardest-working people I ever knew: they always worked every day, all day; they had to come up with the solutions to make things work. And I think that work ethic, maybe stubbornness, single-mindedness, definitely played a role for me. I'm definitely thankful for my roots.
Unfortunately, spaceflight takes a lot of time and money.
My undergraduate, I double-majored in biology and chemistry. Biology was kind of my love.
Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.
