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, 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?  Perhaps pretty pictures from space have become so common in the visual culture that their connection to scientific research is now taken for granted, and the watershed moment no longer exists.  Or does it?

How did you get interested in science?

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