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so for all those future aspiring

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astronauts about their particular kids

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and you know I I was a kid watching the

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Apollo landings at the age of 12 and 13

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I thought the house and it was just

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magical I thought this was the best

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thing ever and it inspired me you know

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the first thing I did I got onto my

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career's master school said how do I do

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that

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and he said well you probably ought to

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study math physics chemistry biology

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stuff like that and that's what got me

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going into science so I found the whole

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astronaut business with tremendous

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motivator to study the sciences and

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which I've never regretted because I

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turned out I love science as much as I

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love being a national but I want you

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know not be able to imagine that um the

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whole business not just astronauts but

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everybody who's bound up in the space

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business because it's not just the crews

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it's the whole community of people who

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are trying to make these good things

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happen now 20 years from now somebody

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could be walking down the ladder and

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stepping onto Mars

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just think how incredible that would be

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just think what we could learn you know

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it's possible that was past life on Mars

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I'm prepared to bet you anything you

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like there's no life on Mars now but

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it's possible two million years ago when

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there was an ocean in an atmosphere and

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it was warm that there was some kind of

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life wiggling around there and then the

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change would be how do we find traces of

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them I probably only way we're going to

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do it by sending people there using her

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eyes how is no brains I'm going around

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and looking in the right places for the

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right things so the whole business of

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you know exploration of our universe

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manned and unmanned is three

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there still is still exciting to me at

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my advanced age of 61 so for somebody

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who's 50 years younger you know 11 years

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old I would say looking back it turned

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out to be just as thrilling and as

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exciting as I thought it would be when I

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was a kid

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