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Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

One day, I looked up and saw I had an extensive resume and saw how I did that and did not realize it because you are constantly working and trying to build a body of work.

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.