In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.