Goodreads asked Stephanie Osborn:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Stephanie Osborn Ohmigosh. I'm afraid I don't really HAVE any particular mysteries in my life. My day-to-day life is really pretty humdrum, and mostly consists of eat, read, write, sleep. Back in the day when I was working space, it was get up, go to work, come home, crash. Now and again, it was "Business trip -- do work stuff, get off, EXPLORE!" (I do like to travel. Most of the psych tests I've taken -- space program tends to like to understand how you think -- have given me a Jungian archetype of Explorer.)

I suppose the one thing I'd like to know -- but will never know -- is if my friend Kalpana Chawla, who was aboard the Columbia's final, ill-fated flight, was knocked unconscious fairly early on, or if she had to endure the breakup of the Shuttle around her. I don't think I'd call that a mystery, as such, though.

I dunno if that answers your question or not, but it's the only "mystery" I can think of in my life. I'm not sure it's one I'd want to explore for a book plot, though. I think it's still too painful.

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