Growing up with the Space Race, I became enthralled with space from a very young age. Between taking the astronomy course offered in my high school’s planetarium, and living kind of out in the country, such that Orion would hang high in the sky on a crisp, clear winter night, I developed a romance with the stars. The launch of the Space Shuttle heralded a new national interest in space, and I followed that to university.  I was an astrophysics major with an aerospace engineering minor. To this day, little pleases me more than sharing the wonders of the heavens with someone on a clear, dark night.