"And do you think that's a good thing?" she wondered quietly. "See, the one time I went to space, I hated it. It was claustrophobic and I just wanted nothing more than to come back down again."

She knew that had to do with the circumstances of how she'd ended up there. But it had been a pretty vividly unpleasant experience for her.

"But from down here, even after that... It looks like so much possibility."