

My son wants to be part of the team that colonises Mars. It’s a one-way-trip. A group of incredible earthlings are being considered to be future martians so we have at least one other planet that can support life.
Thankfully he’s only 13 and too young to be considered because I’m not quite ready to say goodbye to him yet. Although there are some times when I think I’d like to see the back of him.
For now he’s going to have to settle for using his telescope pointed to the night sky and wonder what it would be like to be out there.

Still, I want to encourage his curiosity because he is, after all, part of the generation that is going to begin exploring space in earnest.