." When I was around 16 or even 17, I encountered this manual through Arthur C. Clarke got in touch with Room Odyssey 2001. That was in fact the very first science fiction book that I've ever read. I was just so grabbed by what he had actually written because the things that he discussed weren't [happening] in the remote future, but in the year 2001. In the book, he speaks about a lot regarding spaceport station, and space capsule that climb to the space station, and lorries that head to the Moon or the Moon base, and all that. I suggest, these are terms that you hear now at all times, right? As Well As Arthur C. Clarke really pictured it during that time. To make sure that was interesting to me. I really hoped that at some point I might service one thing like that." In conditions of my education, I was really mosting likely to enter into the area engineering, yet then somebody recommended me that technical engineering will offer me a broader history. So I observed the assistance, and also it was actually the ideal thing to perform. I wound up knowing a whole lot of traits, certainly not merely technical design but additionally a whole lot concerning electric design and systems design at the same time." ... At that point an option possessed NASA. It was at that time that they started discussing the spaceport station. Ronald Reagan back then was the President, as well as he recommended this initiative to cultivate the spaceport station. During that time, he contacted the spaceport station 'Flexibility.'." I presumed, 'Wow, what an exciting concept it would be terrific if I can work with that.'." And of training course, one point resulted in yet another, and [I wound up working on the International Space Station.] So you never understand what you're going to wind up performing." I believe in synchronicity often. Things that you perform, somehow, result in your ultimate location. Some unnoticeable forces drive you because instructions. When you recall, you understand that whatever fits together.".-- Douglas Wong, Solution Engineer, ISS CRS Visiting Motor Vehicle Protection & Objective Guarantee Combination Focal, NASA's Johnson Area Center.Image Credit Score: NASA/Bill StaffordInterviewer: NASA/Thalia Patrinos.Browse through a number of our other Faces of NASA..