I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing. — Story Musgrave Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point… — Story Musgrave Copy Share
And So, I Was Not A Military Test Pilot, But As Soon As NASA Expressed An Interest In Flying Scientists & People Who Were… — Story Musgrave Copy Share
