I remember when I was in China, didn’t even have internet.

My parents bought me a children’s book about planets and stuff… I still remember it called 十万个为什么 (Literally: 100 Thousand Whys)

I was so intrigued.

I remember I had not much things to read and I kept reading that over and over again. I remember still having it when I was in 2nd grade in the US… like that’s my last “artifact” of my pre-US life…

I remember just putting it in my bookbag and bringing it to school cuz… idk why… maybe I just felt nostalgic about it and thought it’d be cool to bring a book nobody else in the school would be able to read… sort of like a special ancient text made for me xD

Sadly the binding on that book is garbage and it fell apart and I no longer have that book…

(I don’t remember NASA being mentioned btw)

Later I remember constantly googling space stuff once we had internet access at home…

I think its:

Childhood… like space is a big concept… so it feels like this “big thing” and I get obsessed about it… like many kids probably do. You go from being in a tiny apartment at home to suddenly knowing about very big empty space… Mind Blowing…

Humanity already been on the moon… meh… not that exciting… especially not after a few decades and interests fade… like omg someone sailed across the ocean… boo boring… already done…