My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.
I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.
I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.
I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.
'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
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