Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.
I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.
My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas.
Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.
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