posted 11-11-2011 04:53 AM               

Anderson is writing a book he can't publish under government rules until he leaves NASA. Working title: "Just Taking Up Space."

posted 01-26-2013 11:01 PM               

... he plans to continue writing his book, "Just Taking Up Space." Anderson described it as the story of his life as an astronaut.

No doubt there will be a chapter on the proudest moment in his career: when he finally reached orbit as the first Nebraska astronaut.

Anderson also will talk about one of his deepest regrets. His late mother, Alice, watched him fly into space but not his father, John "Jack" Anderson, who died of a stroke in 1984, at age 53.

"He was watching from a different grandstand," Anderson said.