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Just Because I'm 77 Doesn't Mean I Don't Have A Dream.

America Needs The Best Education System In The World. We Have It In Higher Education. We Do Not Have It In General Education For All Of Our People - The K-12 Education. Other Nations Are Far, Far Outdoing The United States In That Area. We Still Have The Lead In Research, But Once Again, Other Nations Are Pouring More Into Research Also. We Still Have A Lead, But To Me It's Just Very, Very Important That We Keep That Lead In Basic Research.

We Had A Lot Of Confidence That There Was Going To Be A Successful Mission. We Weren't Off On Some Suicide Effort, Certainly [with Friendship 7].

I Think That It's Good For Us To Be Able To Travel In Space And Do Research In Space, And I Emphasize The Research, Because Space Travel To Me Is Far More Than Just Seeing How Far We Can Go.

To Sit Back And Let Fate Play Its Hand Out And Never Influence It Is Not The Way Man Was Meant To Operate.