 How does Alice feel about delivering the baby on the space station?
The terrible pressure of a rocket landing would increase her effective body weight to nearly half a ton; an adult human being couldn't take that sort of punishment for long, much less the tiny life that was growing within her. Her pregnancy had never made her uncomfortable; the slow rotation of the wheel-shaped station about its axis gave an effective gravity at the rim only half that of Earth's surface, and the closer to the hub she went, the less her weight became. We can't deliver a seven-month preemie without an incubator." But as soon as we get within radio range of White Sands, I'll ask them to send up an emergency rocket with an incubator. You'll be the mother of the first child born in space.
 She is confident in Major Barnes. She feels he's perfectly competent, though obstetrics is not his field.
 She is confident in Major Barnes. She feels he's perfectly competent, though obstetrics is not his field.  She is excited. She's going to be famous. No one has ever had a baby in space before.  She is terrified. No one has ever had a baby in space before.  She is scared because the baby is so early and there is no incubator onboard the space station.