I lived in a few different places growing up.

I started off in Virginia because I was born there and was where the first NASA headquarters was located.

I did not know it when I came into the world, but in the first 20 or so years of my life, I was going to be very much exposed to the world and industry of space flight.

It started when my father left the Air Force as a captain and a jet fighter pilot and went straight to NASA which was being newly formed.