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I Think A Mentor Gets A Lot Of Satisfaction In A Couple Of Ways. They're Doing Something Constructive, So They Feel Good About That. And When They See The Results Of This, With The Young People They're Working With, It's Very, Very Rewarding.

A Lot Of People Ask...why A Man Is Willing To Risk... Well, We've Got To Do It. We're Going Into An Age Of Exploration That Will Be Bigger Than Anything The World Has Ever Seen... If A Man Faces Up To The (unknown) And Takes The Dare Of The Future, He Can Have Some Control Over His Destiny.

We're Going To Go To The Moon. We're Going To Go On To Mars. We're Going To Set Up A Base On The Moon. Ok, But No Money To Pay For It, Nothing In The Budget For It. And So The Decision Made At That Time Was To Cancel The Whole Shuttle Program To Save Money, Which I Think Was Very, Very Short Sighted.

To Get Your Name Well Enough Known That You Can Run For A Public Office, Some People Do It By Being Great Lawyers Or Philanthropists Or Business People Or Work Their Way Up The Political Ladder. I Happened To Become Known From A Different Route.

Liftoff Is Very, Very Gentle, Contrary To What Most People Think. Because You Remember, The Weight Of The Booster - The Amount Of Thrust On The Engine Is Just Barely Enough To Get The Booster Underway. And So It's A Very Gentle Liftoff, Contrary To What Most People Think When They See All The Fire And Smoke Of Launch.