I couldn't be more excited. We've always needed more space.

The ramp has been talked about for years and all of our Hilltop users are glad to see it. We will be happy when it is finished.

It was something Ferdo said. We may not have it all, you and I, but we have more than is granted most men or women, he told me, and he was right.

I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

At this point I thought 'We made it,' by which I meant 'We survived.' I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true.