and on april 11th of 2011, ian anderson was playing a concert in russia in the city of perm, and i wasiving on the international space station. and it's a special day because that is the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight, the first person to leave the planet. it's not about a rtain country, it's about a person left our planet. and so for us to do a duet between earth and space seemed quite appropriate and very scary for me. john: the challenges you faced in the astronaut corps aren't limited to the astronaut corps. there are a lot of people, going through the same things in their careers. who were you hoping would be motivated by this book? would read this book and say, oh, this is how i can do this? >> i think this book will appeal to people who know they have something inside of them that the world needs, and you can't always be the most confident about that. i mean, i am not, but this book is designed so they can read that some of these things happened to me in the space program. and if it could happen in the space program, it can happen anywhere. and it does. and just realize t