So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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