The latest page in the book I am writing for my infant grandson. It’s a bespoke book, full of sketches and family stories. I won’t include the text I included after painting Artemis II, but I can tell you it is full of stories of my father’s work on the Mercury Project in the 1960s. He worked for IBM and was on loan to NASA when he figured out how to get a stream of data from Goddard onto all the correct terminals in Florida. He helped train Deke Slayton, and watched Enos launch from the Mercury Control Center. His stories inspired curiosity and wonder in all of his kids.

A hand-drawn illustration of a rocket launching, with blue smoke and a tall, orange body, against a blue background, is visible on a sketchbook page.