I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
"John Herschel Glenn, Jr."/Col, United States Marine Corps/USMC, Retired/Ret.; born July 18, 1921) is a former United States Marine Corps/U.S. Marine Corps United States Marine Corps Aviation/aviator, engineer, astronaut and United States Senate/United States senator. He is the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven, the original group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by the American space agency NASA to operate its Project Mercury/Mercury spacecraft and become America's first astronauts.
On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Mercury-Atlas 6/Friendship 7 mission and became the first United States/American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the Sub-orbital spaceflight/sub-orbital missions of fellow Mercury Seven astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. Glenn resigned from NASA on January 16, 1964, and the next day announced plans to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Ohio. But injury from a bathtub concussion caused him to withdraw from the race the following March. He retired from the Marine Corps on January 1, 1965. A member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party, he finally won election to the Senate in 1974 and served through January 3, 1999.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous astronauts! More John Glenn on Wikipedia.Both of us had the same response when we heard about this, ... It was kind of like, 'Been there, don't want to do that again.' Our whole lives, we both have lived with the potential of our father's death.
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.
The good lord only gave men so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs growing hair that's up to them.
Would I have him do this? N-o-o-o-o, ... Am I being supportive? You bet.
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.
We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
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