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if a boulder runs rolls in front of your

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path you don't just stop and stare at

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the boulder and cry and kick the boulder

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i mean it's not going to move so you

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find a way around it you find a way

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around it you find a way over it but you

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don't just stand there and stop or quit

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you have to keep moving you always have

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to keep trying you know and and your

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goal is on the other side of the boulder

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so you just keep moving you find a way

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around it um you just don't give up my

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dad and i would sit out at night and we

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could see all the stars and we would

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look at the first satellites going over

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and you could

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imagine you know and we would talk about

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what it might be like to be up there and

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looking back started out in a small town

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in missouri and carthage missouri went

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all the way through high school there

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and

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ended up being valedictorian of my high

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school class the reason i went into

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chemistry is i had a very influential

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high school teacher she encouraged me to

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study sciences and and go far in my

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career i went to a local community

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college it's actually a four-year school

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it's called missouri southern state

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college and i got a scholarship to go

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there so that made it very attractive it

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turned out to be a very good college and

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i ended up going to the university of

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missouri rolla for my graduate degree

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and my master's degree in chemistry and

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i worked for a couple of years after

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that and then applied to the university

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of washington

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in seattle where i completed a phd in

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analytical chemistry so my very first

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shuttle flight i went to the mir space

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station so it was a russian space

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station and we took the alpha magnetic

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spectrometer on its maiden flight on my

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second flight we did the space radar

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topography mission and on my last

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mission we helped construct the

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international space station by adding

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the airlock i personally was just

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you are you marvel at the size of the

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planet you marvel at the beauty of the

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planet you've seen pictures from space

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but it does not compare with actually

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being there

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in person three-dimensional you have the

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sounds of the vehicle but it's more of

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the um the lighting that you get from

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the moon reflecting off of the oceans

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and then back into your eyes and

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the lightning over the patterns that it

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makes it is something like humans have

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never experienced before and you

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feel

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regretful that you can't share that with

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more people because if more people could

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see what you saw and feel how you felt