What are the biggest challenges of being a female astronaut?
Katie Coleman: Well I’ll say that being an astronaut is challenging just altogether in that I really have a lot of things to learn. You might think that I’m an astronaut and I know everything about space, about astronomy, about engineering but you know what this head is only so big and it doesn’t know all those things. And so I really have to keep learning things to make sure that I review the ones that I might need today or next week. It’s a very big challenge, so that’s maybe the hardest thing. I would say that the things we need to know are not so hard but there are a lot of them. Now when you ask about the challenge of being a female astronaut I don’t think its that much different than the challenge of being a guy astronaut except for there are still not enough of us. So we are looking for folks like you to join us and certainly you are capable of doing that. I will say that because there are not many of us we are a little more visible. I think it means that if somebody is watching
