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I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

I always said I wanted to be scientist, but I didn't really have the staying power.