Jay Apt, 71, remembers watching an early NASA satellite from the leafy backyard of his childhood home in Pittsburgh, and later viewing the planets through a telescope there. This was no casual stargazing: Mr. Apt later became an astronaut, completing four space missions, including two spacewalks. He credits his childhood home, a circa 1952 modern house with floor-to-ceiling glass windows, for providing an early acute connection to nature.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 24, 2020 18:11 UTC