“I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring…” — John L. Phillips

Since the Columbia accident, the Russian space agency, or the Russian space program, has been literally carrying the load bringing us all the supplies we need on the Progress vehicle, smaller amounts on the Soyuz vehicles.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.