I was very impressed with the man, and not just because, after my third question to him in a smaller gather-round-the-speaker Q&A afterwards, he just looked straight into my eyes and asked me why I wasn't working for NASA in some capacity...
While Dr. Musgrave is only 20 years older than I am, and thus I did not grow up with him as a hero of mine, I did meet him at a talk he gave at Fermilab about 35 years ago or so. I was very impressed with the man, and not just because, after my third question to him in a smaller gather-round-the-speaker Q&A afterwards, he just looked straight into my eyes and asked me why I wasn't working for NASA in some capacity...
One of his most interesting comments during his talk was that he was terrified during every launch. He said that once in orbit, he was fine.
Quote from: the_other_Doug on 12/21/2017 02:50 am I was very impressed with the man, and not just because, after my third question to him in a smaller gather-round-the-speaker Q&A afterwards, he just looked straight into my eyes and asked me why I wasn't working for NASA in some capacity... And what was your answer? I suspect I am not the only person looking back 30 or 40 years and wondering how things would have turned out had a few decisions been taken differently (for me, it was turning down working in McD/D flight simulation to pursue chip design software...)