David Wells grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, only a few miles from the Stennis Space Center, where he listened to (and felt!) the testing of the Saturn V rocket engines that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon. As a young boy, he watched all of the Apollo lunar landings, and he was hooked on space exploration. His interest was furthered as a Civil Air Patrol and Air Force JROTC (junior reserve officer training corps) cadet in high school and went deeper as he took a year-long astronomy course in college. In many ways, he grew up with the space program and has followed the advances in space exploration with great interest all his life. David's serious pursuit of fostering engagement and education began in 2017, when he attended a week-long Faith and Astronomy Workshop hosted by the Vatican Observatory in Tuscon AZ. While there, he attended lectures by astronomers from the University of Arizona as well as Jesuit astronomers from the Observatory; he visited the facility of where the mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMTO) were created; and he visited the control center for the OSIRIS-REx mission to the near-earth asteroid Bennu. Subsequently, he joined the Smoky Mountain Astronomical Society where he has participated in several outreach activities to the general public. More recently, he has rejoined Civil Air Patrol as an Aerospace Education Officer, and also the Air and Space Forces Association, where he hopes to further engage and educate youth and adults in the exciting future that astronomy and space exploration holds.