He has also brought an amiably goofball sensibility to the orbiting laboratory, engaging the ground crew in daily trivia contests that often include questions about Nebraska, his home state, or challenging them to provide the punch lines to jokes.
The tower engages the ground at its northwest corner, in so doing serving to identify the building's main entry and also reinforcing the verticality of the tower.
Media in India feel Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi needs to "engage with the ground realities" to improve his party's chances of winning the upcoming general elections.
"Rahul must engage with the ground realities of Indian life far more closely and for far longer than the flash of a photo camera," says The Times of India in an editorial.
In fact, millennials tend to distrust leaders who show up for the spotlight but don't engage on the ground.
I always encourage young doctors to keep your hands dirty, you know, keep on engaging in that world because that contact, that human-to-human contact is where the real relationship lies and you can build something on that stable ground but the more distance you get from that the more quickly you are able to lose the plot, so continue to work and engage on the ground.
While the Ju 52s transporting the German paratroops came under heavy fire, Lent's Rotte engaged the enemy ground positions.
More must be done on the ground to engage the appetite of audiences for seeing foreign language films in the cinema – and trust me, there is an appetite.
Rather than engage the right on religious ground, Democrats need to support aggressively the social and personal values that their leaders in the past have espoused and many of us find lacking in the Republican agenda.
The delay gave the Germans time to approach the northern landing grounds and engage the defenders from the 7th King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB).
