Well, thanks sciencewhizliz.

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5. My story...

When my son was about 8 he became infatuated with space travel and rockets and the moon landing. He followed the space program and read Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" in 4th grade. At one of the science fairs held annually at his elementary school he won first place for the replica of a rocket that he had built and the report he wrote about the science behind space travel. He had been identified as gifted by 3rd grade though I always knew he had an amazing mind without anyone official telling me that. He has been a NASA engineer at KSC for almost ten years and is one of the software engineers that had a part in the successful Artemis II mission. He downplays his part, but it takes lots of people who are smart and passionate about science to make something like that happen.

It's important that we make science interesting to young people. There are so many other things drawing their attention away from what's truly important. Needless to say, my journey raising this guy has been an adventure and a challenge and I am so proud of the man he's become. Oh, and he's a staunch Democrat!