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"Diamandis, 38, can tell you where and when the cosmos imprinted his imagination: grade school, late in the Apollo era. More and more routinely, crews rocketed to the moon and walked, hopped, golfed, and dune-buggied across its surface. For most kids watching it all on TV, the thrill quickly softened into nostalgia. But not for Diamandis: 'I was in fifth grade, and it hit me that the space frontier was my purpose in life.' While studying biology at MIT in 1980, he cofounded Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and modeled himself on members of the astronaut corps. "
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