Steve Russo who retired nearly a month ago from his position with the East Kentucky Science Center. Steve is posing with the EKSC's Chronos star projector, which what led he and his wife Jan to Prestonsburg for the first time in 2004. submitted photo Recently, East Kentucky Science Center Director Steve Russo retired after more than 50 years in the planetarium field â a journey which has took him from New York, Florida and ultimately brought he and his wife, Jan, to their home in the "Star City." According to Steve, his parents took him to his first planetarium show in New York City when he was five years old. Back then, he said, there were no multimedia presentations when he attended, just an old man pointing out constellations on a slide projector, but it was then that he knew working in planetariums was his calling.