I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether it's in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.
Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.
If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.
I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special.
I was a flight engineer on my second flight, which is the most senior position a non-American can have aboard the shuttle. We're the cockpit crew. We fly the vehicle up to space, dock the vehicle to the space station, undock it at the end of the mission, and return it to the ground.
You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.
There's actually an incredible amount of parallels between working in central Congo in a remote, isolated village and doing research aboard the space station.
It's not that I don't get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.
The chairman, Mehmet Dalman, he was brilliant for me. He helped me left, right and centre, he lives aboard now but he was my shoulder.
The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.
