so for all those future aspiring
astronauts about their particular kids
and you know I I was a kid watching the
Apollo landings at the age of 12 and 13
I thought the house and it was just
magical I thought this was the best
thing ever and it inspired me you know
the first thing I did I got onto my
career's master school said how do I do
that
and he said well you probably ought to
study math physics chemistry biology
stuff like that and that's what got me
going into science so I found the whole
astronaut business with tremendous
motivator to study the sciences and
which I've never regretted because I
turned out I love science as much as I
love being a national but I want you
know not be able to imagine that um the
whole business not just astronauts but
everybody who's bound up in the space
business because it's not just the crews
it's the whole community of people who
are trying to make these good things
happen now 20 years from now somebody
could be walking down the ladder and
stepping onto Mars
just think how incredible that would be
just think what we could learn you know
it's possible that was past life on Mars
I'm prepared to bet you anything you
like there's no life on Mars now but
it's possible two million years ago when
there was an ocean in an atmosphere and
it was warm that there was some kind of
life wiggling around there and then the
change would be how do we find traces of
them I probably only way we're going to
do it by sending people there using her
eyes how is no brains I'm going around
and looking in the right places for the
right things so the whole business of
you know exploration of our universe
manned and unmanned is three
there still is still exciting to me at
my advanced age of 61 so for somebody
who's 50 years younger you know 11 years
old I would say looking back it turned
out to be just as thrilling and as
exciting as I thought it would be when I
was a kid
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