When the two pilots emerged from the craft shortly afterward, they could barely walk; they had been crammed into a cabin the size of a bathtub for nine days. Not once during those nine days had the team stopped or refueled their delicate aircraft. Col. Richard G. Rutan and Jeana Yeager had just flown around the globe and into aviation history.

Many people look back at good times in their life and want to return, but unfortunately that is impossible.