With me it was WILLIE LEY?
and the old TOM SWIFT BOOKS, plus, being a 6 yr old kid when Al Shepard made his sub-orbital flight and the teacher led the class in front of a Philco b+w TV to watch, that's the start of my interest....Kids today never remember how hard it was to transmit TV PICS wordwide, and every broadcast had the words LIVE via SATTELLITE imposed over it...