It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolutedarkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe. How long can we fly?..
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!
— Hey, Dad? Do you think there's people on other planets?
— I don't know, Sparks. But I guess I'd say... if it is just us... it seems like an awful waste of space.
There was a time I knew everything in the sky. Every satellite. Every constellation. Souvenirs of space walks and astronauts. And rockets launched by NASA in the '60s. As a kid, I looked up and felt the future. It belonged to me.