I'm just tickled pink that I'll be on Endeavour's last flight.

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct

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.'

John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.

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.