![]() ![]() And I remember 66 as you know took you through Texas and New Mexico, Arizona, but especially Texas. And what they would do they would take the northern route and they would take the southern route back, the 66 route. Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson (1945 - ), looked back on his family’s travels along the historic Route 66 as an eight and nine year old, with his brown-skinned father and his light-skinned, white-passing mother: “ Route 66, the classic Route 66 was the way you traveled from Chicago… to California. And so, seeing the moon rise off the horizon and the sun set on the other side, and seeing these kind of cosmic activities going on, but not being able to really explain them, was just again, fueled my curiosity about science and our planet and the connectiveness of people living and working in this environment. All the ‘how’ questions came from again these road trips and these experiences looking up into the night sky, or travelling to the beach and seeing all the grains of sand and looking at the waves and tide of the ocean coming in which was… dictated by the influences of the moon. And seeing the milky way or seeing just all this stuff, it's kind of hard to explain how did it get there, what's up there, how does it work, how are we connected. And… it was just fascinating how many little pin pricks in the velvet there were. ![]() Former astronaut Leland Melvin (1964 - ), who logged almost 600 hours in space, remembered contemplating the night sky as a young boy on his family’s summer vacation: “ One time we were in the Smoky Mountains, and I remember at night just looking up into the night sky and seeing how bright the stars were without the light pollution being in the city. ![]()
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