Every spring, I love watching flowers blossom in my backyard. Their diverse colors on the backdrop of trimmed grass deliver a hopeful message that the most beautiful things in life are different from the background.
The Interstellar Expedition to retrieve spherules melted by the fireball of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1, serves an important educational mission.
First, it demonstrates that science can be exciting. Every day over the past week, about 30,000 people read my expedition diary reports. One of the readers explained that this is the first time he had witnessed how science is actually done as an iterative learning process guided by evidence.
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