A Compliment

About six months ago I contacted Neil deGrasse Tyson to see if he was willing to serve as an adviser to our board. Obviously, to have someone with the clout of Dr. Tyson, would give our organization more weight, and I would love to have his input during the time we are developing the facility. Of course I realized that the chance he would say 'yes' was small, but hey, if you don't ask it surely will never happen.

Unfortunately, Dr. Tyson declined as he was actually in the process of shutting off existing advisory positions because they simply take too much of his time. But he was courteous, friendly and wished us luck on our efforts.

Then out of the blue, on February 26th I received an email from Dr. Tyson where he asked me for an update on the Austin Planetarium project. So, I wrote what all had taken place and what breakthroughs we have made. I showed him some building designs and updated him on the status of the location for the planetarium.

This morning I received his reply:

Keep up the good work. But especially happy to learn how unnecessary I turned out to be.

Thank you Dr. Tyson; that is a great compliment of our achievements and I cannot ask for a better worded letter of support.