"Well, if nobody was very excited we would've had to pick based on something else," he says. "Maybe somebody who was a good flier and didn't mind going. It's a long flight. I didn't even know how long it was until I flew it. And if not everybody agreed then the people who didn't think we should send somebody and the people who did think we should send somebody would argue, and if there was enough arguing about it and there wasn't anybody who really wanted to go then we probably wouldn't have sent somebody after all."