When my kid was five, my wife asked what he wanted to do when he grew up. He said he wanted to work at NASA building rockets. That year, she made him a rocket shaped birthday cake.
Buzz Lightyear and October Sky were some of his early favorites followed by The Right Stuff and Apollo 13.
Fast forward a few years. She made him the same rocket cake for his 22nd birthday. The next day he graduated as an Astronautical Engineer and he works at NASA.
That’s wonderful!! Can’t think of anything more difficult than Aero engineering. I forgot about October Sky, that was great, also. On Facebook I’m a member of the Mercury, Apollo, Gemini group. So many people as nuts about manned spaceflight as you or your son, so many cool anecdotes. Those folks paint spaceflight, astronauts, build models, decorate their houses with everything space. I’m a poor imitation. We have a guy at work that was kind of an annoying salesman but found out his Dad was an old time engineer and his kid is is in payload engineering at SpaceEx. I saw him in a whole new light, clearly passed on some good genes and virtue to his kid. Congratulations!
Fantastic. Congratulations to your son!