I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I was never going to be a rocket scientist. But I found the field that I was blessed to be able to do, and I just put my whole effort into that.