The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A MemoirInspiring and joyous.People "Heartwarming . . . infectious . . . Morillo's The Boy Who Reached for the Stars is every bit the inspiration he means it to be."Kirkus Reviews 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 Morillos life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador