Here’s a great bio of Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. I’ve requested his memoir from the Wake County Public Library but this will hold me over until it arrives.
In the latter half of 1958, two events occurred that would have a profound effect on the science of astrophysics: one was the signing of the National Aeronautics and Space Act by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which authorized the creation of NASA as a civilian space agency; the other, much more humble of the two, was the birth in the West Bronx of Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Oh, and we got tickets!