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On Saturday, October 12th, a rare comet will be at its most visible over Philadelphia – streaking through the sky and easily visible with a telescope or binoculars. Named “Tsuchinshan-Atlas”, the comet will make its closest approach to Earth for the next 80,000 years and promises to be the “comet of the century.”
To prepare for the occasion, in this week’s StoryCorps feature, six-year-old Joey Jefferson and his uncle Jerry Morrison share their love for space with us. Morrison is a Flight Systems Engineer at NASA, working with spacecraft subsystems like navigation, thermal subsystems, and flight software to pilot spacecraft through missions in outer space.
While he’s worked on exciting and groundbreaking missions like the Cassini-Huygens probe, which was the first to land on Saturn’s largest moon, Jerry shares in this story that his six-year old-nephew is his “favorite person to talk to about space.”
If you have young people in your life, share the sky and this story with them this weekend!
Watch the full story below:
This is the eighth in a series of short editorials that highlight powerful and positive Black stories from our partners at StoryCorps. This post and accompanying audio appear with the permission of StoryCorps, a non-profit organization whose mission is to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all — one story at a time. Find out more about their programming, including their upcoming initiative Brightness in Black, at storycorps.org.
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