🚀👩‍🚀What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it. – Kyle Chandler👩‍🚀🚀
 
I found a fairly recent survey on the internet listing the top 25 answers to that age old question “What do you want to be when you grow up?”  I was pleasantly surprised to find that Astronaut and Scientist still made the top 10.  I thought for sure those choices would have been bumped off the list completely by options like you-tuber, pop-star, and pro-athlete. I guess we can partially thank projects like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin for re-sparking interest in space travel, not to mention all of the fantastic movies out there both fictional and based on real events. 
 
I grew up loving the classic V-2 style rocketships in Bugs Bunny cartoons and watching Kirk and Spock outsmart aliens in space.  Later, I read noodle bending science fiction from authors such as Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Larry Niven and A.E.van Vogt.  I still love a good story that includes plausible theories of relativity, folding space, terraforming or alien ecology. My husband is way more of a hard-core science nerd than I am, preferring the actual history of space flight complete with a degree in Aerospace engineering.  Yep, I married a rocket scientist.  That said, his fave rocketships are also the sleek bullet shaped and completely improbable ones for landing you find in Tintin comics and 1950’s movies. So, I may not be able to do rocket science, but I have  made a rocket mitten pattern that you will love to infinity and back again.
 
This pattern is recommended for knitters who have experience knitting in the round, reading charts and working in stranded colorwork, but don’t let that scare you, its easier than it looks. The mittens shown were knit in sock / fingering weight for Women’s medium / Men’s small but you can also use DK weight to make a larger mittens.