When I saw news footage of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft completing its planned final descent to crash into the surface of Saturn, I was struck by the emotional reactions of the scientists in the control room and couldn’t help but feel the sadness of their loss as well. At the time, my father-in-law was being treated for late-stage cancer, and we didn’t know that we had only one more year left to be with him. Eventually, these two moments fused together into this story, celebrating the love and connection that make our lives feel not as small in this great big universe.