John Glenn
John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn, Jr.,, is a former aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States senator. He was selected as one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth18 July 1921
CountryUnited States of America
Let me castigate the press a moment here. Too often you get into the human aspects of this and you don't get into the scientific stuff that gets into everybody's house all over this country.
She's rather firm in her attitude on that at the moment, ... I would imagine this would probably be my last flight. She's been through an awful lot. I owe her some consideration at this point in life I think.
It's been a great ride so far, ... To be able to float around in Zero-G, I just wish everybody could experience this. The view is so hard to describe. It's moving, it's emotional, when you see the curvature of the earth.
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
Yes! A one-word answer. I guess I should just stop there,
Would I have him do this? N-o-o-o-o, ... Am I being supportive? You bet.
Whether it was considered legal or illegal or whatever, there was foreign money that came back into the system, ... And I'm sure we're going to be getting more in subsequent weeks about foreign money that made it back in on the Democratic side.
What this does is create such cynicism and doubt about our whole political system that's it's a dangerous thing for the future, ... That's the reason why I wanted to take the broadest possible look at this thing.
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.
This story, as far as I know right now, is the only one so far where the head of a national political party knowingly and successfully solicited foreign money, infused it into the election process, and intentionally tried to cover it up,
You don't need a walker up here and you don't need to worry about osteoporosis or a cane or anything like that, because you just float across the room,
I think we have the opportunity here of doing some great things for this country, ... I think through the years, over the past dozen years or so, the pernicious influence of money in political campaigns has become just intolerable. I think we have to correct it and these hearings are going to be the most definitive set of hearings to lay the informational base to really do a good campaign finance reform.
I envy Neil for that wonderful, wonderful experience.
some good advice, maybe even out of this committee, come up with a good campaign reform law.