Question: what made you become an astronemer and not any other scientist?

Alan Fitzsimmons answered on 7 Mar 2014:

When I was 11, a friend of mine got a little telescope for Christmas, and we looked at the craters on the Moon with it. From then on I watched tv programmes on space when I could, and read loads of books. (Believe it or not, we didn’t have the internet back then 😯 ) It just seemed so interesting, I always enjoyed learning more about it.