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Those indomitable words intoned by Neil Armstrong, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," when he set foot on the moon in July 1969 poignantly signaled a new era in the history of civilization. For card-carrying members of the baby boomer generation who huddled around their family TVs and watched in real time the images of two ghost-like humans kicking up dust on the lunar surface, that seminal moment inspired midsummer night's dreams of one day becoming an astronaut. As an 8 year old living in Amman, Jordan, and watching that historic moonwalk, AJ Abdallat had high hopes of becoming an engineer, not knowing then how closely intertwined his childhood ambitions would eventually be with NASA and the space program. Fast-forwarding nearly 50 years, "I'm an engineer by training and an entrepreneur," Abdallat proclaimed. "I have a passion for technology and taking technology to the commercial space. I'm going to look for real pain in the market and then try to solve those kinds of problems." Real-world problems...