“If you’re at a high enough vantage point and it’s night time you can see these sounding rocket launches, like from the Charlottesville area, which is so, so cool” said NASA engineer Chloe Sackier. “So I used to wake my mom up and drag her out in the middle of the night and be like ‘look, you see that tiny light in the distance? That’s a rocket’. So that interest and fascination was always there”.
