A fascination with space starts young, I’ve learned. My daughter is 4 years old and already dreams of one day becoming an astronaut. She’s been asking me regularly if she can stay up late to look through the telescope, and she gets excited every time she spots the moon or a star.
It’s easy to understand her interest. There is something magical and humbling about looking up at the night sky. Finding constellations, learning about the planets, and realizing how small we are within this vast universe are all fascinating ideas that I think everyone has at least some interest in. I mean learning about and imagining what exists beyond our own planet is awesome.
Just think of all of the SciFi movies and books that exist because someone was willing to imagine what may be. Or of all of the incredible discoveries NASA has made because…
