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
We were sort of feeling our way and finding out what would happen to the human body in space.
To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible, ... It just strengthens my faith. I wish there were words to describe what it's like.
My brother and I both had a very similar response, ... We were 100 per cent against it. It's kind of like 'been there, don't want to do that again.'
You know, back when I did the Mercury flight,
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've read every intelligence document. I've been in every intelligence briefing. And there's nothing yet that makes me change my mind that the 1996 presidential race was not affected by the Chinese plan.
Annie was not wildly enthusiastic -- I'll put it that way, ... She's come around. She's enthusiastic about it now.
I just wish that every flight got the kind of attention we used to get in the Mercury days,
I'm now doubled on my space time, and building up every second.
I know there's a lot of interest in this, ... But I'm here to be a working crew member, training as a working crew member, and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
taking part in some research in a hospital someplace.
It's an advantage up here for older folks because in Zero-G you can move around much more easily, ... I've been bumping my head a lot on things as I float around here, but that's all right.