6-Year-Old Starts Petition to Save His Dreams of Going to Space

After realizing the $10.41 in his piggy bank wouldn't be enough to support NASA, a 6-year-old boy with dreams of becoming an astronaut decided to petition President Barack Obama's administration to increase funding for the space program.

Under the advisement of his parents, Connor Johnson of Denver, Colo., filed his plea on the government website We the People. In less than two weeks, the petition has garnered more than 10,000 digital signatures.

"NASA's mostly the only space company I've known for a very long time," Connor said in a video on local news station KUSA. Read more...