What Are We Doing Here? We're Reaching

It Was Hard Telling Those Kids...that I Wasn't Going To Be There This Year. And I Knew I Was Going To Miss Them. I Won't Have An Opportunity To See Them Again, Unless They Stop By The House. Now During The Summer, I Got Lots Of Notes; Kids Would Stop By The House. I'd Be Pulling Weeds Or Something And They Would Come Up And Give Me A Hug And Say, 'oh, I Can't Believe It, This Is So Wonderful!' And Just Get Very Excited About It. It Was Hard Not Being In School. I Would Have Loved To Have Gone Back To School.

I Told Them How Excited I Would Be To Go Into Space And How Thrilled I Was When Alan Shepard Made His Historic Flight, And When John Kennedy Announced On The News That The Men Had Landed Safely On The Moon, And How Jealous I Was Of Those Men.

Every Shuttle Mission's Been Successful.

Just As The Pioneer Travelers Of The Conestoga Wagon Days Kept Personal Journals, I, As A Pioneer Space Traveler, Would Do The Same.

Nasa Was Going To Pick A Public School Teacher To Go Into Space, Observe And Make A Journal About The Space Flight, And I Am A Teacher Who Always Dreamed Of Going Up Into Space.