"The engineer known as the "space mechanic" speaks to both our future and past in this breathless memoir of his journey from Ecuador to NASA and beyond. Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee E...
Today, Elio Morillo is helping man NASA's mission to explore Mars. But to get there, he first had to escape the economic collapse of Ecuador, and overcome systemic adversity and inequality in US public education.
