Excellent, can't wait.
As for the space program; I wasn't even a teenager when I became aware of the first missions to outer space and avidly watch all the news on the TV. I remember the day Apollo 8 left for the moon, we were treated to a TV at the front of our classroom as although the launch was early morning (around 7.30 Eastern time) it was already after midday at my school in the UK. It was an historic event in itself and I religiously followed all the Apollo missions from then until the last one. It was unfortunate that the public became less interested by it as apart from a few images of take off and arriving at the moon hardly anything was shown on British TV after Apollo 13. The shuttle missions generated a spurt of interest in the early days but that also died down until the disaster with Challenger in 1986, then again with the Columbia disaster in 2003.
It's always saddened me that more wasn't shown of the nearly 130 shuttle missions that have flown. I've tried to keep tabs on the NASA space program all my life, though I wouldn't call myself an expert.
It was those early missions that gave me an interest in space and since the age of 8 have always owned a telescope, though none are super powerful (that's another ambition of mine - to own a really powerful and professional telescope, though I'd have to move out into the country side due to all the light pollution from nearby Manchester. I'm sandwiched between a city, Manchester and large town called Macclesfield, and although I'm almost rural, the light pollution spills over from both to interfere with decent viewing. I haven't seen the Milky Way in years and when the main meteor showers arrive between August 21st and late November, I can only see the brightest. I was a founder member of my home towns astronomical society, and even tried to build a reflecting telescope. I completed all of the casing and stand, the mirror housing and the eye piece housing, manufacturing most of the bits in my woodwork and metal work classes at school, but at the time could not afford to buy the 7 inch mirror nor the Barlow eyepieces that I so wanted, as I earned a pittance delivering newspapers to my neigbourhood. I wasn't dedicated enough to forgoe my Marvel Comics and chemicals for my 'boys own' laboratory, each week to save the required amount to purchase those items as it would have taken around a year of saving every last penny. :) I considered trying to make a reflecting mirror, which was much cheaper to buy, but as a young teenager I didn't have the patience. :) (I was too busy making gun powder to blow up my massive collection of HO Scale airfix soldiers and making depth charges out of Calcium Carbide taken from my cavers carbide lamp - which also double up as a flame thrower when I had one of my destructive battles, lol - it had a flame that could shoot out to around 6 inches if I set the water flow high - in case you're wondering carbide lamps were used for bicycles in the early days. They worked by creating acetylene gas, which was a by product of the reaction between the rock like chemical, calcium carbide and water.)
