ready so what do you think do we spend too much on the space program or well i think they ought to spend uh i don't think they ought to spend overly spend on it but uh i don't see anything wrong with you know having a pretty good budget for it because uh do you heck i don't know i don't i think maybe one day they will uh find a good use for it you know maybe they haven't all that much yet uh other than the little things they've developed in this space shuttle uh-huh yeah the little experiments that they've done and so forth you know uh-huh in uh i know they asked the question uh would you go if you had the chance and i'd go tomorrow yeah we could oh really if i had a chance oh you're an adventurer huh yeah right what makes it what makes it so exciting for you well i don't know i just it would be something i've never experienced before weightlessness i'd love to experience weightlessness that's something i've always uh thought would be fascinating you know yeah that that'd be fun that'd be a lot of fun uh-huh that's true yeah i'd i'd have to i'd think once or twice but i think i'd probably do it just for the experience i guess but it'd be pretty interesting that's for sure yeah yeah i think so when they had the uh accident you know back the space shuttle accident and i thought well maybe i won't go you know but uh since then i thought well what the heck i'd go if it would be a one time once in lifetime experience i'd try it uh-huh oh yeah you couldn't couldn't pass it up that's for sure no i don't think so you think it'll ever happen where they'll let it'll be common or uh it might it it very well may uh i think it's sort a uh-huh had a setback because of that accident and uh and sometimes i get really disappointed because they have so many delays when they have a launch yeah yeah that's true and everything i think gee you know they'll never get this worked out it just seems like they they delay it more and more every time they have a launch uh-huh yeah so i don't know you know they seems like they sort of bog down they're not really progressing right now to me yeah i'm i'm kind of anxious to see what they do with this uh uh this space station they're talking about you know i think that'd be a step to where you know in the right direction but yeah yeah yeah yeah well i believe that uh they'll eventually make it to Mars you know maybe not in our lifetime but uh you know if this world is still here at that time i think they'll i think they'll eventually do that uh-huh yeah yeah i'd uh just the way we progress i i like i say i'd hate to see them cut out the the budget there's a lot of places you know that can use it but just you know simple things like Teflon stuff like that all came from the Apollo mission yeah things they developed right is that right i didn't realize that you know in that program you know i mean mean mean just common everyday things that we take for granted but uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh you know that's as an offshoot it's kind of like the military budget you know there's a lot of things we use because they put so much money in the military sure sure that we end up using just a you know everyday stuff but something like that Teflon something you take for granted you use it every day but yeah yeah yeah yeah if it hadn't of been for something like that you'd never you know really not have got it so yeah well that's true that's true and i guess they've got a lot of uh they've done a lot of medical tests uh-huh uh in space too and uh i mean i don't know what they've they've actually come up with uh-huh but uh i know that medicine is another area that they used that they've used in space a lot you know well they said yeah uh-huh they say in you know in weightlessness they're they're able to do a lot of different things with the chemicals and minerals that they can't do with the gravity so that's right right right there could be some valuable i guess there's a shuttle going up tomorrow as far as i is that no i don't even know about that yeah i think it's they've been a little concerned because it's kind of chilly it's cold you know like you say so they're worried about the oh yeah the the the ice same thing that happened to the Challenger but they are going up to do some tests with some organisms uh organisms and stuff and weightlessness to see how they uh right uh-huh how they react to that and everything but so i think i think you're right though they're getting little better and better sooner sooner you know sooner or later they're going to make some major breakthroughs right to the weightlessness yeah i think i think they'll work it out eventually yeah like you say it will be a major breakthrough right now they're sort of sort of sitting still but i think eventually it will uh they'll it will come to them uh-huh you know yeah it's just a matter of time i guess nothing ever comes without nothing ever comes without some effort so that's right well you know talking about the weightlessness i've uh i've uh noticed that they've talked about like these Russian astronauts stay up there for nearly a year uh-huh you know they have a lot of problems with the i'm not sure what it is with the the muscle muscle tone and so forth because they uh oh really they have been weightless so long and then they course they exercise but it's not the same as exercising with gravity and the i i'm not sure exactly oh really i hadn't heard that what the deal was but there were some problems with long term weightlessness uh-huh oh really yeah and they were trying to figure out how to solve that problem if they were planning on going to Mars because you know it would be a real long term talking about a couple of years i guess yeah huh so it was just that their muscles weren't as well toned as they started or i i'm not sure if it was tone or exactly what it was but i i remember they had a lot of problems with their uh when when they got back to Earth uh walking you know they walk they couldn't walk very well uh-huh uh-huh oh really huh when they finally made it back into gravity and uh i'm not sure exactly why that was you know i mean it was because of the weightlessness but i'm not sure physiologically what happened yeah