David Mackay

I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic.

In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.