I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or American transcendentalism.… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual,… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
