Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

We need a continuing presence in space.

We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.