But I don't mind that either. The only thing that annoys me is that both of them still have all their hair, while I have lost most of mine, that is really annoying. The great thing about Goddard, and about working for NASA, and I think the reason that we don't notice that we are getting older, is that the work is so exciting. My wife tells me that I work a lot harder now than I did 30 years ago when I met her. The reason for that should be obvious.
People work hard if they see potential in what they are doing.
NASA has done a lot in the past, but there is even more potential for the future. In Earth Sciences I think that we are just about to enter an era in which we begin to achieve the full potential of space observations, and computers, and information science. That's why we work so hard, because we can see that potential and we want to reach for it. It's a challenge and it's exciting to reach for it. The computer took up the entire second floor in our building, and the maintenance contract on it was almost a million dollars per year.