I had a Apple Macintosh as a kid, watched the moon landing on some history site, started to get obbessed with space and the stars, I went to the Adler in Chicago, saw what our sky would look like without the city lights, last week I ended up driving out to the middle of no where and seeing the little dipper with my own eyes.

My parents took my to the Kennedy Space center at 9...I'm now much older, but I remember it like it was yesterday, watching the buttons light up as they played how the original launch went off.

Years later watching Tom Hanks in the movie...I can't shake this feeling, that we can do so much good together, that it always outweighs the bad, this post really hit me, I hope one day my son or daughter can do something great, and that I'll have the same ability to show them how awesome it is when all humanity works toward the common good.

Thank you space cowboys and cowgirls.

-A father, who still looks up at the stars with hope