." When I was actually all around 16 or 17, I discovered this manual through Arthur C. Clarke phoned Space Odyssey 2001. That was actually the initial science fiction book that I have actually ever read through. I was actually just so caught through what he had created considering that the many things that he blogged about weren't [taking place] in the outlying future, but in the year 2001. In the book, he speaks about a lot regarding spaceport station, and also space capsule that increase to the spaceport station, and automobiles that head to the Moon or the Moon base, plus all that. I imply, these are actually conditions that you hear today continuously, right? As Well As Arthur C. Clarke really visualized it during that time. In order that was interesting to me. I really hoped that sooner or later I could work with one thing like that." In conditions of my education and learning, I was in fact going to enter the space engineering, yet after that somebody suggested me that mechanical design would give me a wider history. So I followed the advise, as well as it was the best thing to perform. I found yourself discovering a whole lot of traits, not just mechanical engineering but also a whole lot regarding electrical engineering and bodies engineering all at once." ... Then an opportunity featured NASA. It went to that time that they began talking about the space station. Ronald Reagan at that time was actually the Head of state, and also he proposed this initiative to develop the space station. Back then, he called the space station 'Flexibility.'." I believed, 'Wow, what an exciting principle it will be actually great if I could work with that.'." And of program, a single thing resulted in yet another, as well as [I found yourself working with the International Space Station.] So you certainly never recognize what you are actually mosting likely to wind up performing." I count on synchronicity sometimes. The many things that you perform, somehow, cause your ultimate location. Some invisible pressures push you during that path. When you recall, you understand that everything meshes.".-- Douglas Wong, Systems Developer, ISS CRS Checking Out Lorry Security & Purpose Guarantee Assimilation Focal, NASA's Johnson Space Facility.Graphic Credit Rating: NASA/Bill StaffordInterviewer: NASA/Thalia Patrinos.Have a look at several of our various other Faces of NASA..