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Maybe mothers, faced with the prospect of frustrated and grumpy would-be child astronauts, were a factor in the striking gender gap in the Florida results.
When I was a child, astronauts were a symbol of the future, of what humanity - and America - was capable of.
"Strapping into a rocket ship is something you don't do lightly," he said, adding that he had talked to his daughters about the risks, which they knew well having grown up with the children of astronauts who died in the Columbia accident.
Tyson, who is fifty-five, was a child when astronauts first landed on the Moon and barely a teen when the missions ended, in 1972.
The report was released over the holidays, she said, so that the children of the astronauts would not be in school, and would be able to discuss the report with their parents in private.
Carl felt like an astronaut, a child, a corpse.
[cartoon id= a19199"] Carl felt like an astronaut, a child, a corpse.
"Our mentality is to feed food to children, not nutrients to astronauts," said Eric S. Goldstein, the chief executive for school support services for the New York City Education Department.
After asking their parents how their own ambitions differed 25 years ago, more of their children wanted to be astronauts (9% compared to 4%) or lawyers (9% to 6%), and 7% want to join the emergency services.
Even so, science is nowhere near as cool as it was when entire generations of children aspired to be astronauts.
