." When I was actually about 16 or 17, I found this book by Arthur C. Clarke got in touch with Space Odyssey 2001. That was actually the first science fiction manual that I've ever read. I was so grabbed through what he had actually composed considering that things that he wrote about weren't [happening] in the outlying future, but in the year 2001. In the book, he talks about a great deal about space stations, and also space capsule that increase to the space station, and also lorries that visit the Moon or the Moon center, plus all that. I imply, these are actually conditions that you listen to today regularly, right? As Well As Arthur C. Clarke actually pictured it during that time. So that interested me. I hoped that at some point I might service one thing like that." In terms of my education, I was really visiting enter into the area design, yet then somebody suggested me that mechanical design will give me a wider background. So I observed the assistance, and it was the appropriate thing to accomplish. I found yourself discovering a great deal of things, certainly not merely technical engineering but additionally a lot about power design and also devices design concurrently." ... Then an opportunity included NASA. It was at that opportunity that they started speaking about the spaceport station. Ronald Reagan during that time was the President, and he proposed this initiative to cultivate the spaceport station. Back then, he phoned the spaceport station 'Flexibility.'." I presumed, 'Wow, what an amazing idea it would be excellent if I might focus on that.'." As well as of training program, the main thing caused yet another, and [I ended up focusing on the International Spaceport Station.] So you certainly never know what you are actually going to wind up performing." I care about coexistence occasionally. The important things that you carry out, one way or another, trigger your final location. Some undetectable pressures press you because direction. When you remember, you realize that everything fits together.".-- Douglas Wong, Solution Engineer, ISS CRS Going To Vehicle Safety And Security & Mission Guarantee Combination Focal, NASA's Johnson Area Facility.Picture Credit Rating: NASA/Bill StaffordInterviewer: NASA/Thalia Patrinos.Look at a number of our other Faces of NASA..