No one told me I had a crazy dream. No one told me I couldn’t do it. And so that dream kept right on growing and growing.

Astronaut Christina Koch said last July regarding her life-long aspiration to become an astronaut. Koch just returned to the Earth after spending 328 days in space, setting the record for longest space flight by a woman and the second-most days spent in space for an American astronaut. She also participated in the first all-female spacewalk in October. (The News & Observer — February 6, 2020)