lenleg:

Alan blames his desire to sail through space on John. When John was twelve years old and super close to his newest baby brother, little Alan used to beg John to take him stargazing. They’d go every time John was home between school and space cadet camp, and they’d stay in a little tent and toast marshmallows over a campfire while they waited for darkness to descend. They’d stay out, just the two of them, under the stars, and Alan sits in John’s lap and makes up funny stories about all the constellations that John can name and John tells him all about his dreams to become an astronaut, just like their Daddy. Which is when Alan decides he wants to be an astronaut too (and fly cool things like spaceships) so he and his big brother can always watch the stars together.

