I love this picture of the 3/4 Grade students at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium.  Some of you may have grown up watching Star Trek, like I did. Space exploration and cosmology have always fascinated me and the science of space travel, physics and imagination are a beautiful combination for young minds and old as well.  I hope that these young Good Shepherd students will learn the physics of space travel and cultivate the imagination of science fiction writing.

How I wish I could be alive a thousand years from now to see if we will ever have the technology to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly.....

If you don't know the rest of that quotation you are not a true Trekkie!

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Written By: Father Lance W. Harlow

Date Published: February 12, 2026

Photo Credit: Ginger Montminy