My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

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