Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars. . . A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.