How to Dream of the Stars

Last year I went down to Washington, D.C for a dew days with my folks, and one afternoon my father and I went to the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian.  They had an exhibit there where you could walk through and there were full color, wall sized photographs of images NASA had captured via various telescopes and exploratory probes.  I was standing in front of one photograph in particular, and image one of the Mars rovers had captured of the Martian landscape, and it was as if you were standing on or celestial neighbor.  I turned to my dad and said, "If NASA wants more funding and for people to care about the space program again, they need to do more like this."  I was overwhelmed and inspired.

Via Alex Whalen, a YouTube video someone put together that attempts to capture the same spirit: