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John Glenn Biography

Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. In 1962, he became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times.

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I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

Beautiful, Four, Know, Night, Sunset

We thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But the - there were some problems cropped up on the flight but was able to take care of those OK and - although they were things that we hadn't really trained that much for. But it was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology.

Claiming, Odds, Russians, Technology, Things, War

On K-12 education America has gone down, down, down compared to the other nations. It doesn't mean that we have gotten dumber. It just means that we have not advanced as fast in those areas as other nations have done, and we're way down right now.

America, Areas, Compared, Gone, Mean, Right

I think in America we have to get back to being the best educated general citizenry in the world and make sure we do not lose our lead in research, if we're to have a leadership position in the world.

America, Educated, Lead, Research, Thinking, World

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

Come, Leader, Moon, Rewards, Stranger, Take

We had an airplane, a Beechcraft Baron, that we - I had since 1981. And Annie [Glenn] and I both of had to have knee replacements unfortunately over the past year, and it made it more difficult to climb up on the airplane. We weren't using it that much so we did - it hurt a lot but I finally sold the airplane.

Airplane, Annie, Hurt, Past, Unfortunately

That whole day [ of the space flight] is very vividly impressed on my memory because it was such a new experience. We hadn't done that before. And then I've recalled it so often since then I think that it's a - it's remained very vivid over the past 50 years, seems to me like about a week or two instead of 50 years.

Impressed, Memories, Past, Thinking, Vividly, Week

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

Calendar, Funny, Live, People, Think, Thinking

To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

Different, Names, Public, Run, Running, Space

As far as actually setting up colonies of people who would live their whole lives in space, I think we're a long ways from doing that yet, and I think we have many, many decades before we could be able to even consider something like that.

Colonies, Decades, Long, Space, Thinking, Ways

Most of our competitor nations around the world have a national education system and America is the only major nation in the world that operates off of local school boards. They receive very little direction from state boards of education or from the nation. So local school boards direct basically what happens and too often they're not willing to track or to do the supervision of the education system that will make it world competitive.

School, America, Track, Competitive, Willing

America put more money into research, into the new and the unknown than any nation in history, and the same thing with education, and those two things led us into a worldwide preeminence in a very short period of time.

America, Period, Preeminence, Research, Thing, Two

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

Cause, Causes, Higher, Personal, Safety

If we could do something that enhances the body's immune system here on Earth, it would be a tremendous step forward in the fight against disease and cancer and other things.

Against, Cancer, Fight, Fighting, Forward, Would Be

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated about it, and it finally has occurred. We hoped we could push this day back forever.

Avoid, Exploration, Forever, Occurred, Space

Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don't think we go to new places just solely to say: "Well, we've been there," and come back, interesting though it may be. To me, each time we go farther into space we should use that to do basic research - basic research that can't be done before you go there.

Interesting, Space, Thinking, Time, Use

We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.

Doe, Names, People, Poisoning, Security

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.

Laboratory, Men, People, Putting, Space

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

America, Became, Emphasis, Everyone, Individual

That was a real fireball.

Fireball, Moon, Real, Star Gazing

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