My greatest accomplishments,

just staying alive.

hehe...

They asked the distance

we were from the moon.

And uh,

there's a guy in the office

who was studying

whether or not we could grow plants

on the moon.

I don't know what he found out.

Uh,

he said,

that (if) we

could grow plants

there ...

we could live there.

I don't-

really think he ever found out.

.. an award by the President ...

And to be KISSED by the President

That was a thrill

cause' I wasn't expecting

to receive it.

Just lined up

on the stage

and there

everything was.

Oh, I don't know if they were expecting 50 people there and they had a

hundred and fifty people.

she was like a typical working mother

we had to do what we were supposed to

we knew there were consequences if we didn't

and so that's how we functioned

What I remember is the things she was able to do

she sewed so she made all of our clothes

and they were always very special

She cooked and made wonderful dishes

desserts, she could cook anything

Oh, I'll do anything for anybody that I can do.

It's a pleasure.

She always taught us to do our best

I think the work ethic that she taught us

is something that would really add to someone's life

I can't understand if you don't want to do anything.

They just want to sit.

That's not right.

You should always be interested in something.

We couldn't be idle

There was never a Saturday that she let us sleep

You get up and do your work first

then you can take a nap

We knew that she was working obviously at NASA on the space program

but when you work in a secret environment you don't bring your work home

so it was just what you would see in the newspaper

and we have learned, as we're still learn today

the particular importance of what she did

and I can literally say it was from the newspaper

I was a freshmen in college in North Carolina

and got in the library and on the front page

of the Pittsburgh Courier was this picture of

I forget the headline but it was almost like "math genius"

and I said "That's my mother!"

and everybody came running in the library

and it read through and talked about what she had just

done. It was like we knew she worked

but we didn't know that the world was going to know

what she did and it was just amazing

then all amazing, there was ordinary things

at the time

and I knew them over

I would

I think now that the world is finding out who

she is and what she did

that it gives hope to young girls

who might think that they can't do something

because she never ever thought she couldn't do something

find that dream and work at it

because if you like what you're doing

you will do well