Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ↗
Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on. ↗
If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch. ↗
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge. ↗
Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home. ↗
I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together. ↗
Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better. ↗
The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings. ↗
Dr. Crater L. She made several deployments including one overseas to the Western Pacific practiced medicine in austere environments and flew on multiple aircraft.
