Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Tyson akaberekerwa muManhattan semwana wechipiri pavana vatatu, mumhuri yaigara muBronx. Amai vake, Sunchita Maria Tyson (née Feliciano), aiva chiremba wechiremba wechiremba weUnited States weHutano, Dzidzo uye Welfare, uye anobva kuPuerto Rican. Baba vake veAfrica-America, Cyril deGrasse Tyson (1927<unk>2016), aive nyanzvi yezvehupfumi, komisheni wezvevanhu kuna meya weNew York City John Lindsay, uye wekutanga Director weHarlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited. Tyson ane vanun'una vaviri: Stephen Joseph Tyson naLynn Antipas Tyson. Zita repakati raTyson, deGrasse, rinobva pazita remusikana waambuya vake, uyo akaberekwa saAltima de Grasse muBritish West Indies chitsuwa cheNevis.Tyson akakurira muCastle Hill nharaunda yeBronx, uye gare gare muRwizi. Kubva pachikoro chepuraimari kusvika kuchikoro chesekondari, Tyson akapinda muzvikoro zveveruzhinji muBronx: PS 36, PS 81, Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy (yainzi "PS 141"), uye The Bronx High School of Science (1972<unk>1976) kwaaive kaputeni wechikwata chewrestling uye mupepeti mukuru wePhysical Science Journal. Kufarira kwake nyeredzi kwakatanga pazera ramakore mapfumbamwe pashure pokushanyira mitambo yedenga yeHayden Planetarium. Akayeuka kuti "chiratidzo ichocho [chedenga reusiku] chakanga chakasimba kwazvo zvokuti ndine chokwadi chokuti ndakanga ndisina chandaigona kuita, kuti chaizvoizvo, zvakasikwa zvose zvakandifonera". Paaiva kuchikoro chesekondari, Tyson akapinda zvidzidzo zveastronomy zvaipiwa neHayden Planetarium, izvo zvaakataura kuti "nguva yakaumba zvikuru" muupenyu hwake. Akapa mbiri kuna Dr. Mark Chartrand III, mutungamiriri wepuraneti panguva iyoyo, se "muenzaniso wake wekutanga wepfungwa" uye maitiro ake ekudzidzisa anofarira akasanganiswa nekuseka akafuridzira Tyson kutaurirana zvakasikwa kune vamwe nenzira yaaiita.Tyson akadzidza zvine mutsindo nyeredzi mumakore ake ekuyaruka, uye akazopedzisira awana mukurumbira munharaunda yenyeredzi nekupa hurukuro pamusoro penyaya iyi aine makore gumi nemashanu. Nyanzvi yezvomuchadenga Carl Sagan, uyo akanga ari mutezo wechikoro paYunivhesiti yeCornell, akaedza kutora Tyson kuCornell nokuda kwezvidzidzo zvepasi....  Mubvunzo: Ndiani akaedza kuita kuti Tyson apiwe basa paCornell University kuti aenderere mberi nedzidzo yake?
Nyanzvi yezvomuchadenga Carl Sagan