But I want you to note his co author Charles Lindbergh.

Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.

I had the pleasure of borrowing from the Longitude Prize and the Orteig Prize that put Lindbergh forward.

But when Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, the payload was also just sufficient for one person and some fuel.

It's people. The Ansari X PRIZE was my solution, reading about Lindbergh for creating the vehicles to get us there.

And so I just figured I'd have the questions answered, and I'd be able to thank my funders, like National Geographic and Lindbergh.

That's the same Charles Lindbergh who actually spent the rest of his life working with Alexis at the Rockefeller Institute in New York in the area of the culture of organs.

You can bring enormous objects in, so in fact their the Dallas Theater Company their first show will be a play about Charles Lindbergh, and they'll want to bring in a real aircraft.

But while this was going on, in 1982, I got a prize from the Lindbergh Foundation their annual prize and I had to prepare a paper on it, which collected all my varied thoughts and varied interests over the years.

And when the capsule of my balloon was introduced officially in the Air and Space Museum in Washington, together with the airplane of Charles Lindbergh, with Apollo 11, with the Wright Brothers' Flyer, with Chuck Yeager's 61, I had really a thought then.

If you look back in history, Charles Lindbergh, who was better known for flying airplanes, was actually one of the first people along with Alexis Carrel, one of the Nobel Laureates from Rockefeller, to begin to think about, could you culture organs?

This was the one chance that I had to focus on what I, really, was after, and what was important. And to my surprise, I realized the importance of environmental issues, which Charles Lindbergh devoted the last third of his life to, and preparing that paper did me a lot of good.