." When I was around 16 or 17, I encountered this manual by Arthur C. Clarke got in touch with Room Journey 2001. That was in fact the initial sci-fi manual that I've ever reviewed. I was actually so captured by what he had actually created due to the fact that the important things that he wrote about weren't [happening] in the far future, however in the year 2001. In the book, he refers to a whole lot regarding space stations, and also space capsule that rise to the space station, and also lorries that head to the Moon or the Moon base, and all that. I suggest, these are conditions that you hear now constantly, right? And Arthur C. Clarke in fact imagined it back then. So that interested me. I wished that at some point I can work with something like that." In phrases of my learning, I was actually visiting enter the room engineering, yet at that point somebody advised me that technical design will provide me a broader background. So I complied with the advice, and it was the correct trait to carry out. I found yourself knowing a great deal of traits, certainly not merely technical engineering yet also a lot regarding power engineering and also devices engineering together." ... At that point a possibility possessed NASA. It went to that time that they began discussing the space station. Ronald Reagan during that time was actually the President, and he suggested this effort to create the spaceport station. During that time, he got in touch with the space station 'Freedom.'." I assumed, 'Wow, what an exciting idea it would certainly be actually excellent if I might work with that.'." And of training course, something triggered an additional, and also [I found yourself working on the International Spaceport Station.] So you never understand what you are actually mosting likely to end up carrying out." I rely on coexistence in some cases. The things that you perform, somehow, cause your last place. Some unnoticeable powers press you because direction. When you remember, you understand that whatever fits together.".-- Douglas Wong, Systems Developer, ISS CRS Going To Car Protection & Goal Guarantee Combination Focal, NASA's Johnson Space Facility.Image Debt: NASA/Bill StaffordInterviewer: NASA/Thalia Patrinos.Look into several of our other Images of NASA..