The Air & Space Museum at the Smithsonian

On July 20, 2009  I was contacted by the Air & Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institute.  They honored me by asking for a written biography. Was I surprised!
It is fun to have been contacted by engineers and astronomers from England, Scotland, Australia, Japan and Russia.  Everyone writes in English very well except one: Russia.  He is a nice guy but hilarious. I asked him if he spoke English. "No" he said.  He is actually French living in Russia.  He has translation programs.  He translated French -> Russian -> English.  You wouldn't believe the hilarious meanings.  Then he sent me pictures of the Russian space vehicles. THEY ARE EXACTLY LIKE OURS--even to a copy of our Space Shuttle.  But he told me that they didn't work. I am really laughing by then.