As a young girl, I wanted to be an astronaut. I have spent my entire life in awe of the universe, and on the simplest level NASA has been my connection to exploring that. I have to admit, I teared up a little to hear that he passed, but I would be hard pressed to believe that he died without the knowledge that he did something extraordinary in his lifetime, and I have to think that is what most of us want to feel in our last moments. That we did something that matters, that we lived our lives to the fullest.