 What is the star mother's attitude toward space exploration? (leave it alone) she misses her son
STAR MOTHER By ROBERT F. YOUNG A touching story of the most enduring love in all eternity. That night her son was the first star. She stood motionless in the garden, one hand pressed against her heart, watching him rise above the fields where he had played as a boy, where he had worked as a young man; and she wondered whether he was thinking of those fields now, whether he was thinking of her standing alone in the April night with her memories; whether he was thinking of the verandahed house behind her, with its empty rooms and silent halls, that once upon a time had been his birthplace. Higher still and higher he rose in the southern sky, and then, when he had reached his zenith, he dropped swiftly down past the dark edge of the Earth and disappeared from sight. A boy grown up too soon, riding round and round the world on a celestial carousel, encased in an airtight metal capsule in an airtight metal chariot ... Why don't they leave the stars alone? she thought. Why don't they leave the stars to God?
 She wishes that humans and governments would abandon their space-related pursuits
 She feels ambivalent and thinks the government's money is better spent elsewhere  She wishes that humans and governments would abandon their space-related pursuits  She obsesses over learning all she can about new stars and planets  She displays strong curiosity about how discoveries could benefit life on Earth