." When I was actually all around 16 or 17, I discovered this publication by Arthur C. Clarke phoned Area Odyssey 2001. That was actually the 1st science fiction publication that I've ever gone through. I was actually just so captured by what he had actually written due to the fact that things that he wrote about weren't [taking place] in the remote future, yet in the year 2001. In guide, he speaks about a whole lot about spaceport station, and space shuttles that rise to the spaceport station, and lorries that visit the Moon or even the Moon base, plus all that. I mean, these are terms that you listen to right now at all times, right? As Well As Arthur C. Clarke really envisioned it back then. To make sure that was interesting to me. I really hoped that sooner or later I could focus on something like that." In conditions of my learning, I was really visiting go into the area engineering, but at that point somebody suggested me that mechanical engineering would give me a broader background. So I followed the recommendations, and also it was actually the right thing to carry out. I found yourself finding out a whole lot of factors, certainly not merely mechanical engineering but additionally a great deal regarding electric design and also bodies engineering simultaneously." ... After that an option featured NASA. It was at that opportunity that they started talking about the spaceport station. Ronald Reagan back then was actually the Head of state, and also he proposed this effort to create the space station. During that time, he contacted the space station 'Flexibility.'." I thought, 'Wow, what an impressive principle it would be actually great if I might deal with that.'." As well as of program, the main thing brought about another, and [I wound up focusing on the International Space Station.] So you never recognize what you're mosting likely to find yourself carrying out." I count on coexistence at times. The important things that you carry out, somehow, lead to your ultimate location. Some unseen powers push you because path. When you look back, you realize that everything meshes.".-- Douglas Wong, Equipment Engineer, ISS CRS Visiting Lorry Safety And Security & Objective Guarantee Assimilation Focal, NASA's Johnson Space Facility.Graphic Credit Rating: NASA/Bill StaffordInterviewer: NASA/Thalia Patrinos.Visit a number of our other Images of NASA..