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so for

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all those future aspiring astronauts

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out there particularly kids and you know

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i i was a kid watching

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the apollo landings at the age of 12 and

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13. i thought the whole thing 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'd go along to my

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careers master at school said how do i

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do that

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and he said well you probably ought to

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study math

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physics

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uh chemistry biology stuff like that

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and that's what got me going into

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science

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so i found the whole astronaut business

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a tremendous motivator to study the

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sciences which i've never regretted

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because i turned out i love science

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as much as i love being a national

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but i want you know young people to

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imagine that um

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the whole business not just astronauts

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but everybody who's bound up in the

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space business because it's not just the

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crews it's the whole

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community of people who are trying to

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make these good things happen

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now 20 years from now somebody could be

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walking down the ladder and stepping

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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 there was past life on

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mars i'm prepared to bet you anything

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you like there's no life on mars now

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but it's possible two billion years ago

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when there was an ocean and an

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atmosphere and it was warm

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that there was some kind of life

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wriggling around there and then the

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challenge would be how do we find traces

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of that

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and probably the only way we're going to

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do is by sending people there

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using their eyes

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using their brains

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and going around and looking in the

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right places for the right things

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so the whole business of you know

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exploration of our universe

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manned

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is thrilling it still is still exciting

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to me at my

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advanced age of 61.

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so for somebody who's 50 years younger

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when i was 11 years old

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i would say looking back

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it turned out to be just as thrilling

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and as exciting as i thought it would be