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
When others kid me about being bald, I simply tell them that the way I figure it, the good Lord only gave men so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs on growing hair, that's up to them.
A lot of people ask...why a man is willing to risk... Well, we've got to do it. We're going into an age of exploration that will be bigger than anything the world has ever seen... If a man faces up to the (unknown) and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny.
We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring them back. That's not the purpose of this program... Space is a laboratory, and we go into it to work and learn the new.
To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
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.
There was a sense of community and community service then as well, ... I think we lost that.
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.
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.
It will be good to have him home.
There is not anything like a broken hip or anything like that, and if you have trouble sleeping at night, why it's no problem because there's another one coming up in 45 minutes.
We've got a good view of Perth and there's a nice glow, ... A long time ago, I looked at the same thing, but this time it's from a different altitude.
We need to have a push at the point of attack on a more consistent basis. On both sides of the ball, we couldn't stop them.