Some kids aspire to be pilots or firefighters.
Others swear they'll become actors or Olympic athletes. A few may still dream of being president. But Jay M. Pasachoff looked to the stars for inspiration, and he's never turned back. And they're suitably impressed that he's the only one among them who followed through on it. While he has no specific memory of someone pointing out the constellations, he does acknowledge that he was influenced by trips to the Hayden Planetarium in New York City where, as a high-school student, he built a telescope.