When I started flying, I realized how enjoyable it was, and flying became my main focus while engineering went on the back burner.

I would do it in a heartbeat. It was one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done in my life; to be weightless is awesome.

We choose the Engineering Open House because the labs are open, and the faculty is here. The focus is to expose them to everything engineering that we can.

The building of the International Space Station is something wonderful, and it will show us how to take the next step beyond low-Earth orbit.

Children often ask me, they say, 'Well, how do you become a fighter pilot, or how do you become an astronaut, or...?' And I say, 'Love what you're doing and do it very well.'

My brother still lives in the house my parents owned in Fairborn. I go back there a lot to visit friends and keep my connection to the National Museum of the Air Force and my membership with the Dayton Engineers Club.