Neil Degrasse Tyson was born October 5, 1958 in Bronx New York and he was born during the Vietnam war. He had a grandma named Altima Degrasse Tyson and a mother named Sunchita Feliciano Tyson and a Father named Cyril Degrasse Tyson And finally a brother and a sister.
He took a trip to the Hayden Planetarium when he was 9 and it made him love space. He then later got his own telescope. At age 11 he got a better telescope because he had walked dogs, did chores and paid for it and his parents paid for the other half. His neighbor used to thought that there was a burglar on Neils house but when the police arrived it was just Neil with his telescope on his roof looking at the stars. Later on Neil became the Captain of the wrestling team. …show more content…
One of Neil’s hobbies is that he likes to wear space themed clothes and loves to talk about space, and he also likes to wear space themed vests and shirts to places he goes. He also likes to share his knowledge with everybody he comes across. As a kid he liked to look at the stars through his telescope, and he had also followed Carl Sagan because he was a very famous astrophysicist. Later on he was a teenager he had an obsession for astronomy after and one day he had another school trip to the planetarium. Neil was in a path of physical cosmology, astrophysics, and science