Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haifi Tyson a Manhattan a matsayin na biyu na 'ya'ya uku, a cikin dangin da ke zaune a Bronx. Mahaifiyarsa, Sunchita Maria Tyson (née Feliciano), ya kasance masanin ilimin lissafi ne ga Ma'aikatar Lafiya, Ilimi da Jin dadin Jama'a ta Amurka, kuma asalinsa dan asalin Puerto Rico ne. Mahaifinsa na Afirka, Cyril deGrasse Tyson (1927<unk>2016), masanin ilimin zamantakewa ne, kwamishinan albarkatun ɗan adam ga magajin garin New York John Lindsay, kuma Daraktan farko na Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited. Tyson yana da 'yan'uwa biyu: Stephen Joseph Tyson da Lynn Antipas Tyson. Sunan tsakiyar Tyson, deGrasse, ya fito ne daga sunan budurwar mahaifiyarsa, wanda aka haife shi a matsayin Altima de Grasse a tsibirin Nevis na British West Indies. Tyson ya girma a unguwar Castle Hill na Bronx, kuma daga baya a Riverdale. Daga makarantar sakandare a cikin makarantar sakandare, Tyson ya halarci makarantun jama'a a Bronx: PS 36, PS 81, da Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy (wanda ake kira "PS 141"), da kuma Makarantar Kimiyya ta Bronx High School (1972<unk>1976) inda ya kasance kyaftin din kungiyar gwagwarmaya da kuma babban editan Jaridar Kimiyyar Kimiyya. Sha'awarsa a fannin ilmin taurari ya fara ne tun yana ɗan shekara tara bayan ya ziyarci gidan wasan kwaikwayo na sararin samaniya na Hayden Planetarium. Ya tuna cewa "alamu [na sararin sama] suna da ƙarfi sosai da na tabbata cewa ba ni da wani zaɓi a wannan batun, a gaskiya, sararin samaniya ne ya kira ni". A lokacin makarantar sakandare, Tyson ya halarci darussan ilimin taurari da Hayden Planetarium ya bayar, wanda ya kira "lokacin da ya fi dacewa" a rayuwarsa. Ya yaba wa Dr. Mark Chartrand III, darektan gidan taurari a lokacin, a matsayin "misali na farko na ilimi" da kuma salon koyarwarsa mai cike da sha'awa da aka gauraya da dariya ya sa Tyson ya sadarwa duniya ga wasu yadda ya yi. Tyson ya yi nazarin ilimin taurari a cikin shekarun sa, kuma daga karshe ya sami wasu shahararrun masanan taurari ta hanyar ba da laccoci kan batun a lokacin yana da shekaru goma sha biyar. Masanin ilmin taurari Carl Sagan, wanda ya kasance memba na malami a Jami'ar Cornell, ya yi ƙoƙarin ɗaukar Tyson zuwa Cornell don karatun digiri na farko....  Tambaya: Wanene ya yi ƙoƙarin samun Tyson ya shiga Jami'ar Cornell don ya ci gaba da karatunsa?
Masanin taurari Carl Sagan