Two different men, two different moments. But a singular thread unites. Imagination.
It was the late Carl Sagan who brought the science and wonder of the Universe to the fore. “Imagination,” he said, “will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.”
It is, in fact, imagination, its lure, its possibilities, that brought a self-described ‘kid from south Texas’ to a launchpad called Denver and lit a fuse that changed the city forever…