One
of my most vivid memories as a child is resting in the back of my
parents station wagon while driving back home to the city. The
stars were so bright and the sky so black as I peered out the window.
In grade school, my parents bought me a 4 inch Tasco reflector for a
science project. Focusing on Mars reminded me of the last scene in,
"You Will Go to the Moon", one my favorite books as a tyke. Mars was so
small and so distant and so tantalizing.
