The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

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.

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.