My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.