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BY MARCIA DUNN Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, discovery of the space station visit to Florida was a pop-cultural sudden turn Thursday when a record four women astronauts talk radio of the orbit to discuss its career selections iPod and even her hairstyle.
Stephanie Wilson was a good sport as she answered questions from the nationally syndicated talk show host Tom Joyner, whose shows are broadcast on blackamericaweb.com. He noted there are more women in orbit today than ever, then asked: "Have you done your hair before you go into space?"
Wilson threw his head back and laughed.
"Of course, I always try to represent NASA best I can," she said. "So hopefully, I'm looking very good."
Wilson, among a handful of black women to fly in space, becoming serious when answering questions Joyner about how she had "affairs of the space shuttle and how parents can encourage their children to follow his example.
The engineer of 43 years said it was important to work hard and be exposed to as many opportunities as possible to "dream big dreams."It is one of three women who flew on Discovery and that already joined the International Space Station, which for the largest crowd ever circle of women on the planet.
Joyner, Orlando, as part of a tour of the 2010 census, asked Wilson if she fulfilled her census form before it rocketed into space Mondays. She did, "but I had to file an extension on my taxes." As for his iPod selections aboard the shuttle-station complex peppy melodies to exercise and spiritual music to relax.
Earlier on Thursday, Wilson helped reach a compartment full of new products delivered to the space station, enough to keep the complex laboratory running for years to come. She used a robot arm to hoist a ton cargo carrier-13 Discovery's payload bay.
And for the second consecutive day, huge pictures of trains shuttle streamed from the space station to Mission Control.
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