Fifth in a series
Re “A Levin Primer for Boys and Girls: How to Become a Scientist”
[img]1993|right|Steve Levin||no_popup[/img]The first cloud of brilliance to burst from the mind of School Board candidate Dr. Steve Levin came on the day of his birth.
He timed it for 1959.
His juvenile awareness was forming fantastic visions so that would allow a boy in Santa Monica to create his own future in outer space.
Dr. Levin was three years old after the early flights of the pioneer astronauts – such as John Glenn, the first human since Santa Claus to orbit the earth.
“I wanted to be an astronaut ever since I was a little kid, six or seven years old,” says the nuclear physicist.
“My plan for becoming an astronaut was that I am going to be a scientist, and work on an experiment that needs to go up into space. When they were planning the space station, I was thinking I would have to be really good at a couple of different things because you need a lot of qualifications to be an astronaut. I thought I would go up as something like a payload specialist.
“Eventually I learned that, among other things, you need to have decent vision. So that meant I was out.
“But in the meantime,” Dr. Levin said, “I became interested in science, and I have had a lot of fun doing it ever since.”
(To be continued)
