When I was young my favorite book was the “Charlie Brown Book of Science Questions and Answers.”  This book was amazing, especially to an 8 year old with a curious mind and active imagination! My first understanding of what space was and what it was made up of were learned directly from the pages of this book, with some help from Snoopy and Woodstock. The seeds of my fanatical obsession with space and space exploration were sewn in the hours spent reading this book. The book also made statements about the possibilities of future technologies.  For instance, it was proposed …