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so for all those future aspiring astronauts about their particular kids and you know I I was a kid watching the

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Apollo landings at the age of 12 and 13 I thought the house and it was just

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magical I thought this was the best thing ever and it inspired me you know

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the first thing I did I got onto my career's master school said how do I do that

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and he said well you probably ought to study math physics chemistry biology stuff like that and that's what got me

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going into science so I found the whole astronaut business with tremendous motivator to study the sciences and

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which I've never regretted because I turned out I love science as much as I

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love being a national but I want you know not be able to imagine that um the

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whole business not just astronauts but everybody who's bound up in the space business because it's not just the crews

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it's the whole community of people who are trying to make these good things happen now 20 years from now somebody

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could be walking down the ladder and stepping onto Mars just think how incredible that would be

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just think what we could learn you know it's possible that was past life on Mars

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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

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there was an ocean in an atmosphere and it was warm that there was some kind of

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life wiggling around there and then the change would be how do we find traces of

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them I probably only way we're going to do it by sending people there using her

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eyes how is no brains I'm going around and looking in the right places for the

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right things so the whole business of you know exploration of our universe manned and unmanned is three

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there still is still exciting to me at my advanced age of 61 so for somebody

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who's 50 years younger you know 11 years old I would say looking back it turned

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out to be just as thrilling and as exciting as I thought it would be when I was a kid