vruz: … who is stepping neatly into Sagan ‘s vacant space boots to assume the mantle of super stargazer and commander of the Cosmos 2.0 spaceship, set to launch in 2013.
I suspect that there’s a whole population out there—people who are underrepresented in the sciences, people who are just like me, but who did not have as deep an energy reserve as I did—who ultimately got discouraged and turned away. So my hope is that by being visible, I’m opening doors so that people better than I am, who may never even have thought they could do this, will come along and be revealed to modern society
