 What isn't a reason for Ben to want to be a rocketman?
How can I tell you what it's like to be young and a man and to dream of reaching the stars? For it was June in this year of 1995, and we were the graduating class of the U. S. Academy of Interplanetary Flight. And perhaps most important of all, they'll make other men think of the stars and look up at them and feel humility—for mankind needs humility." He was a veteran of Everson's first trip to the Moon nearly twenty-five years ago, and he was still at it. "But he wasn't always a spaceman. "No, it'd be good to be a spaceman, to see the strange places and make history.
 he wanted to be the best for Laura
 he wanted to be the best for Laura  he wants to travel to unexplored places  he didn't have family to come home to  he wanted to be like Stardust Charlie