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But I do say that space can be explored

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and nasty . I think back to a speech

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that John F . Kennedy , President John

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F . Kennedy gave at Rice University as

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he was outlining his vision for why we

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should go to the moon . Why we should

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send a manned space flight to the moon ?

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And he asked a kind of a rhetorical

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riddle in the middle of his speech .

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Why does rice play Texas ? We choose to

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go to the moon . Why does Rice play

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Texas ? Not because it is easy but

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because it is hard , not because they

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are easy , but because they are hard

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and that captures in my mind the

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essence of why you would voluntarily

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choose to come to Sass Matthew is the

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first uh father , son graduate of the

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course . Him being my legacy

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is uh the greatest part of my life in

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my career . I can still hear in my mind

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my mom and my dad cheering me on from

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the sidelines and whatever sport it was .

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And there was uh I still remember a

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time in a hotel room while I was a

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freshman . Dad showed me how to shine

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shoes and my low quarters . He had been

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a tanker Navigator . I had gone to the

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MQ one , the MQ nine and then the B 52 .

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It's rare that your dad and mom can

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understand what you're going through in

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the military for us . It was really ,

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really special this year is really one

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of the first significant kind of

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experiences that , that we both shared .

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And it's been an opportunity for a lot

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of really great conversation . You're

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going to change mentally , how you

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think you're going to change ,

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personally , how you handle stress ,

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you're going to change relation , how

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you relate to other people . You're

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going to build patterns of inquiry ,

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habits of mind . But what that really

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means is you are going to be faced with

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the opportunity to clear a bar that you

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probably couldn't clear on your own .

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It's a work ethic sort of thing that

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I'm used to working hard , but it gave

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me a broader perspective of the caliber

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of guys that I was with . It is an

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education you can't get on the outside .

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It's an experience you can't find

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anywhere else . And , uh , and it is

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very , very difficult , which makes it

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very rewarding .