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
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This is basic, fundamental research. We have some 35 million Americans over the age of 65, ... The basic purpose of why I'm going is not just to go sightseeing.
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.
just going down to the corner to get chewing gum.
Good for her, ... I think too many people live by the calendar and become couch potatoes. I think people should do what they want to do and what they can do.
What impresses me every time I come in and see this thing, ... is how fast aviation advanced beyond the Wright brothers. If you think it was only about 15 years until they were dog fighting over France in WWI...
some good advice, maybe even out of this committee, come up with a good campaign reform law.
I'm now doubled on my space time, and building up every second.
There was a sense of community and community service then as well, ... I think we lost that.
Go with me and tell a Gold Star mother her son didn't hold a job. Go to Arlington National Cemetery, watch those flags, stand there and tell me those people didn't have a job.
I just wish that every flight got the kind of attention we used to get in the Mercury days,
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.
You weren't half as glad as I was,
All I can tell you is I feel 100 percent better than I did one week ago at this time, ... I was scared. I was really excited for John, but now I can say day after tomorrow I'm going to be able to touch him. That's very, very special to me.