A Space Shuttle Pilot's Affair With a Fellow Astronaut

On July 4th, 2006, she blasts off. She leaves the earth strapped to the top of a rocket and heads up to the International Space Station. Now at the time, what I haven't yet gotten to, but now is the best time to break it out, she was also deeply in love with a fellow astronaut. They've been having their affair since 2004. In 2007, she wrote a letter to her, his mother, right? And I quote, Bill is absolutely the best person I've ever known, and I love him more than I knew possible.