Story Musgrave

“The biggest challenge is not the technology; it's the human spirit.”

“The Earth is a character. It has its own personality, its own temperament.”

“Spacewalking is a ballet. You're dancing with the cosmos.”

“You have to be a bit of a poet to be an astronaut.”

“I had to do it. It was a mission. I had to repair the Hubble.”

“My mission is to tell the story of the Earth.”

“I came to NASA as a scientist. I was not a pilot.”

“Every single day, I have to learn something new.”

“The best way to know a planet is to live on it.”

“There's a beauty to the universe, a logic, a mathematical elegance.”

“I am a mechanic. I am a farmer. I am a surgeon. I am an astronaut.”

“I want to be remembered as a guy who loved the planet.”

“When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty trivial.”

“Get out on the frontier, if you can, and you may have to go to the frontier of the mind.”

“If you want to be a spacewalker, you should be a scuba diver.”

“I'm a farmer. I've always been a farmer. I'm still a farmer. I'll be a farmer for the rest of my life.”

“The view from space is a spiritual experience.”

“The frontier is still out there. It's in the mind.”

“I think the universe is a pretty friendly place.”

“I've had a love affair with the sky.”