sally ride was my hero. i begged and begged my parents.abama, they had space camp. the two people from australia came in. and they wanted to go to space camp. what a place for me to take my role and voice and highlight these young women specifically because we need more women not only up in space but bolstering what's happening go with space and nasa, like andrea who's essentially in charge of all of the space gyms in the i.s.s. and so i just wanted to show these young women what other, you know, girls are capable of. >> it clearly gave you a lot of self-confidence, too. >> i mean, i credit my parents a little bit for that but, yeah, absolutely. going to space camp for me as a 12-year-old, it was something that i had never done before. i mean, they take you through it. it is hard core stuff. you know, you wake up and you take all these tests and you study and you learn about everything out there, and at the end of the week you perform a mission and, you know, naturally i became the commander of my space mission many years ago, wolf. >> of