Amongst The Stars

Prologue

"Mommy, Mommy come look at this!" He says as a little boy of about nine years old.
"Hold on just one minute, I have to take this important call."
He doesn't want to have to wait for his mother to finish on the phone for he fears it'll be too late for her to see. So he grabs her by the arm and says, "look mommy a video of the first man going to space."

"That's nice dear now may I take this call?" She says with a little aggravation in her voice as she walks to the nearest bench where she can still keep an eye out for her little boy. The boy had always had a dream in his eye to finally go to space and see everything in all its beauty. He had studied everything about space in his science class and even rented a few books from the public library. He planned on working at NASA in the astronaut program but his family kept telling him to think smaller about his job opportunities in life.

It was late evening of that day when they finally returned home. His mother had stopped at the fast food restaurant just down the road from their house for dinner as they pulled in the driveway to a run-down, broken, battered trailer home. The boy had his telescope on the front porch and he quickly looked through it at the moon in all its white fullness. He had heard his mother tell the story of the man in the moon and he always wanted to see if there really was a man on the moon. He had a little notepad full of the things he had seen in space ranging from planets to stars to constellations. He had shown his friends at school but they all looked at home like he was different. Like there was something about him that wasn't right. They always called him an alien as a child because of his love of the galaxy and the solar system.