Nine-year-old boy on autism spectrum writes book about journey to space Beppe Caruana, 9, writes about wanting to travel to space where he won't be weighed down by gravity and can escape to a place where he can be rid of all that upsets him 12 January 2021, 12:06pm by Laura Calleja Nine-year-old Beppe Caruana: 'Space was all I had imagined it to be; I felt at one with the universe. All obstacles had disappeared. I could shout and clap freely without anybody staring at me' A nine-year-old boy with non-verbal autism has written a book about his desire to travel to space, where he will no longer be weighed down by gravity.