This book is about the author's wanderings in childhood and youth, his family, discoveries of unique kinetic gas effects for planning space-exploration missions, and about the reasons that led him, born to be a scientist, to the decision to leave his homeland, the Soviet Union, seek an awkward path in life in the U.S., and continue to being engaged in both science and teaching-the main purposes of his life.
Dr. Vladimir Riabov is an aerospace scientist and a professor of computer science whose passion of technological innovations inspires him to search for effective pedagogical methods to awake students' curiosity. He is the author of "Hypersonic Flows of Rarefied Gases", "Thoughts on Pedagogy", and "Symphony of Life" recently published by the Outskirts Press. Learn more at https: //www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir-Riabov-3.