The fascination with space travel dates back to childhood for many, including the author who was born into an Air Force family in England in 1956.
Exposure to short films, TV shows, and literature about space exploration fueled the author's passion for human space travel since an early age.
Humanity's dream of venturing into space became a reality through the launch of satellites, such as the Voyager probes, and culminated in historic events like landing on the Moon.
The author's personal connection to space exploration includes watching the manned missions to the moon take off from Florida, where their father was involved in installing communication arrays for tracking these missions.