It's the journey that counts. If you don't have passion for the journey, you better think about something else. Musgrave's own journey was eventful. He had dinner with six faculty members. The evening began with a photograph of a young boy squatting on the shoreline raptly staring at the sand in his cupped hands.
Curiosity is one particular type of passion and one way of understanding the universe.
The Wolk lecture, which was really a slide show, moved fairly quickly through the technical aspects of spaceflight to the aesthetics of what have to be the ultimate aerial photos. Musgrave ran through breathtaking views of coastlines and mountain ranges and on to more abstract views of deserts and dunes. For his final appearance, Musgrave gave the most technical talk of his visit during a physics and astronomy seminar, focusing on the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission. With arresting directness Musgrave told tales from deep space and what it took to get there. Asked when he had played his, Story Musgrave said he hadn't yet.