with a 150,000-mile lifespan (if needed until 2028 or beyond). Colbert realized he was the recipient of an extremely rare honor—the COLBERT (a backronym) is the only piece of NASA-engineered equipment in space that is named after a living human being—when astronaut Sunita Williams came on The Colbert Report to announce that NASA had named the treadmill after him. Filmography Film Television Video games Theatre Published works Colbert, Dinello, Sedaris. Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not (Hyperion, May 19, 2004) America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Warner Books; September 2004) I Am America (And So Can You!) (Grand Central Publishing; October 9, 2007) America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't (Grand Central Publishing; October 2, 2012) I Am a Pole (And So Can You!) (Grand Central Publishing; May 8, 2012) Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions (Simon & Schuster; September 5, 2017) See also New Yorkers in journalism Political satire References Further reading External links Colbert interview transcript, 60 Minutes. (April 30, 2006) 1964 births 20th-century American comedians 20th-century American male actors 20th-century Roman Catholics 21st-century American comedians 21st-century American male actors 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century Roman Catholics American comedy writers American male comedians American male film actors American male non-fiction writers American male novelists American male stage actors American male television actors American male television writers American male voice actors American media critics American parodists American people of English descent American people of German descent American people of Irish descent American political commentators American satirists American sketch comedians American television talk show hosts American television writers Audiobook narrators Candidates in the 2008 United States presidential election Catholics from Maryland Catholics from New Jersey Catholics from South Carolina Grammy Award winners Hampden–Sydney College alumni Late night television talk show hosts Living people Male actors from Charleston, South Carolina Male actors from Washington, D.C. Male feminists New Jersey Democrats Northwestern University School of Communication alumni Novelists from South Carolina Peabody Award winners People from Bethesda, Maryland People from Montclair, New Jersey Primetime Emmy Award winners Screenwriters from Washington, D.C. South Carolina Democrats Television producers from New Jersey Tolkien fandom Webby Award winners Writers from Charleston, South Carolina Writers Guild of America Award winners