The Hawkesbury has said farewell to Windsor's Robert Francis Carpenter, known to many of us as Bob, the co-founder of One Giant Leap Australia Foundation along with his wife, Jackie. Bob was born on 19 August 1948, serving in the Defence Force and receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1989 for his service to the RAAF as flight engineer leader at Richmond. While he had always loved flight, schoolteacher Jackie opened his eyes to space, and together they set  out inspiring the next generations of astronauts and scientists, taking Australian students across to NASA's Space Camp. When I met NASA's Pamela Melroy in parliament last week she's the deputy administrator at NASA—she described Bob and Jackie as the dad and mum of space education in Australia. One Giant Leap has got kids involved in a vast array of STEM programs: Seeds in Space, the Gadget Girlz and Space for a Day, to name a few. It's one of many legacies of Bob's life, and his influence was evident at his funeral in the Riverstone Schofields RSL, overflowing with model aviators, One Giant Leap students and his former RAAF mates. Jackie and the team will ensure his work lives on, but he will be dearly missed.