In many of the interviews we've conducted for the lessons, scientists we spoke with invoked Sputnik or the Apollo Program as watershed moments in their lives when they got turned on to science.  In recent years a few researchers have tried to determine whether this is also true for the Hubble Space Telescope, to no avail.  I have come to believe that the success of space science outreach over the last 20 years has actually rendered these "national moments" to be invisible to us, and so we can not pinpoint the impact as precisely.  In terms of technology use we speak of millennials, or digital natives.  Is the same true for space science?  The missions and pretty pictures have always been a part of landscape of the younger generations, so the awareness is different than for those of us who remember before and after.

So, how id you ot you interested in science?