“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist

The call to space is something unique to every astronaut.

Vanderbilt University Associate Professor Dr Eiman Jahangir’s love affair with rockets began very early, when he was a preschooler growing up in a war-torn Iran at the peak of the Iran-Iraq war.

Starting at a very young age, as a toddler, Eiman learned to look for rockets flying overhead that carried bombs, often while he, his brother, and their parents raced for the safety of bomb shelters.

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