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Story Musgrave

(1935) Astronaut

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Story Musgrave is an astronaut, best known for Australia from Space.

Quick Facts About Story Musgrave

Born: August 19, 1935
Profession: Astronaut
Notable works: Australia from Space

About Story Musgrave

Franklin Story Musgrave is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996, he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees along with astronaut Lee Morin. Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown aboard all five Space Shuttle orbiters.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Story Musgrave

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I…

Book

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When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so…

Far

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I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to…

Astronaut

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I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me.…

Am

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I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

Hubble

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I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

Abuse

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There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

Celebration

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Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or…

Big picture

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If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate…

Communicate

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Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is…

Giving

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I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it,…

Embedded

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It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and…

Beauty

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The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

Depends

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I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from…

Am

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And So, I Was Not A Military Test Pilot, But As Soon As NASA Expressed An Interest In Flying Scientists & People…

Epiphany

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I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.

Dealt

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I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a…

Animal

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It is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our…

Cosmic

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I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And…

Getting started

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The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has…

Depends

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Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways…

Catching

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The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look…

Accepted

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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…

Ballerina

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That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to…

Mess

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Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.

Comfortable

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