Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whanau a Tyson i Manhattan hei tuarua o nga tamariki tokotoru, i roto i te whanau e noho ana i te Bronx. Ko tana whaea, ko Sunchita Maria Tyson (née Feliciano), he tohunga mo te Tari Hauora, Maatauranga me te Whanaketanga a te US, a he uri no Puerto Rican. Ko tana papa o Awherika-Amerika, a Cyril deGrasse Tyson (1927<unk>2016), he tohunga hapori, he kaitohutohu rauemi tangata mo te koromatua o New York City a John Lindsay, me te Kaiwhakahaere tuatahi o Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited. E rua nga tuakana o Tyson: ko Stephen Joseph Tyson me Lynn Antipas Tyson. Ko te ingoa waenga o Tyson, ko deGrasse, no te ingoa wahine o tana kuia matua, i whanau ko Altima de Grasse i te moutere o Nevis o Ingarangi. I tipu ake a Tyson i te takiwa o Castle Hill o te Bronx, ana i muri mai i Riverdale. Mai i te whare kōhungahunga puta noa i te kura tuarua, i haere a Tyson ki nga kura a te iwi i te Bronx: P.S. 36, P.S. 81, te Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy (i huaina ko "P.S. 141"), me Te Kura Tuarua o te Pūtaiao o te Bronx (1972<unk>1976), i reira ia te rangatira o te kapa whawhai me te etita-i-te-kaiwhakahaere o te Kaituhi Pūtaiao Pūtaiao. I tiimata tana hiahia ki te whetu i te iwa o ona tau i muri i tana haerenga ki te whare tapere rangi o te Hayden Planetarium. I mahara ia "he tino kaha te tohu [o te rangi pō] e tino mohio ana ahau kaore au i whiriwhiri i roto i te take, ko te mea pono, ko te ao i karanga mai ki ahau". I a ia e kura tuarua ana, i haere a Tyson ki nga akoranga whetu i whakawhiwhia e te Hayden Planetarium, i kiia e ia ko "te wa tino nui" o tona ao. I whakawhiwhia e ia a Dr. Mark Chartrand III, te kaiwhakahaere o te planetarium i taua wa, hei "tauira tuatahi mo te hinengaro" me tana momo whakaako hihiri i whakaranu ki te whakaari i a Tyson ki te whakawhitiwhiti korero ki te ao ki etahi atu i te huarahi i mahia e ia. I ako a Tyson i te whetu i ona tau taiohi, ana i te mutunga ka rongonui ia i roto i te hapori whetu ma te tuku korero mo te kaupapa i te tekau ma rima o ona tau. Ko te tohunga whetū a Carl Sagan, he mema o te whare wānanga o Cornell, i ngana ki te whakauru i a Tyson ki Cornell mo nga akoranga paetahi....  Pātai: Nā wai i whakamātau kia whakauruhia a Tyson ki te Whare Wānanga o Cornell kia whai i tana mātauranga?
Ko Carl Sagan te tohunga whetū