ANDERSON

Growing up in a small Midwest town and achieving great things are often misconstrued as being mutually exclusive. In his always entertaining and conversational style, Anderson shows his audience how they ARE just like him. With personal stories and anecdotes, Anderson illustrates how we may take advantage of the nurturing and mentoring benefits from the community that raised us. Then, coupled with proper focus, hard work, and a little bit of luck, Anderson provides some simple -and realistic- viewpoints intended to help put all on a path to their personal "mission" success... Spending 152 days floating above our beautiful planet changes one's "orbital" perspective of the spaceship we call Earth. Through photos taken during his 2007 expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), Anderson provides an entertaining and reflective discussion of life onboard the United States' most complex technical achievement. Beginning by involving the audience in a "pseudo" game of Jeopardy and..