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Dr. Leon Vanstone is a rocket scientist, storyteller, and idiot. As a rocket scientist, Dr. Vanstone has a deep technical understanding of engineering and systems engineering. He is an expert in experimental rockets, hypersonic, and scramjets. He founded the University of Texas Rocket Engineering Lab, researched hypersonic space planes, and published many conferences and archival papers on these topics. As a storyteller, Leon finds endless joy in the universe, talking about how it works, and our story as we move through it. He is also fascinated by the way that technology and people interact. Technological progress is not destiny, we get to choose how we remake our societies as new technologies emerge. Will we make it better? What will our story be? Leon fondly refers to himself as an "idiot" meaning in his quest to learn and grow, he realizes, in the end, he knows nothing.