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John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95 (npr.org)
BenBoy writes: John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 -- December 8, 2016) was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. He was 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. He passed away today at age 95.
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I remember as a kid of 5 in kindergarten seeing crude animation live on TV as John Glenn orbited the earth. I also remember his return flight on the Shuttle when he was in his late '70s. In between he was a Senator. What a magnificent American and human being. Why don't we seem to see more of those types of people in public life today?
Back when safe space travel was really a wing and a prayer. Sail on brave soul.
John Glenn wasn't just "one of the Mercury astronauts." He was the first American to orbit the earth, as well as the last Mercury astronaut to die.
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Few people could dream of comparing to what he accomplished, exploring to the very end..
Well, the presidential election turned out fairly well; despite the objections of a few loudmouth idiots - so that's a good start!
FWIW,. they finally stuck that rocket landing on a barge at sea. You did well if you were in the stock market. That's all I got.
John Glenn was a U.S. Marine fighter pilot who flew 59 combat missions over the South Pacific during WWII and 63 combat missions during the Korean War. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism or extraordinary achievement six times! In Korea, he got the nickname "magnet ass" because he attracted so much enemy flak on his missions.
Oh, and then he went on to become a test pilot, the first American to orbit the Earth, a U.S. senator and then the oldest man to go into space.
He stopped flying planes at age 90.
"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." John Glenn.
If you're looking for someone children can look up to, he's it.
I'll add that my roomate also said the other astronauts (I don't remember their names) were the complete opposite.
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I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
Ah well, you have this one second hand anecdotal story, so clearly you must be right! Why not say he molested kittens in a pizzeria, just to make your journey to the fake news complete.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Mr. Glenn is now with Jesus in the infinity of space. Orbiting the Earth, the Moon, the Sun. He is very happy to be back on his endless space walk.
I took my daughter to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum when she was 7. John Glenn was there on his birthday showing some people around. I think he had turned 89 or 90 and he really could move around quickly. He was very friendly and I was able to get a picture of him with my daughter. She was so excited to have been able to meet an actual astronaut. My wife and I got a chuckle out of the young security guard that was with him. When people asked who he was, he said that he was the worlds oldest astronaut.
Pffft. That's preposterous! Another step closer to moving past this 'round-earth' propaganda that's been spreading since the 60s.
Wake up sheeple!!!
I used to be a blind beggar in the streets until John Glenn saw me and said, "Lo, come forth thou wretched cripple, and I shall heal thee." He touched my eyes with his hand, and suddenly I could see, only in X-ray vision. It must have come from all that radiation he absorbed in space.
Has anything happened this year that hasn't been an unmitigated disaster?
The Juno spacecraft reached Jupiter.
Scientists found the gene that is linked to ALS, which gets us one step closer to eliminating it.
Scientists also got us one step closer to a cure for HIV in 2016.
Cleveland finally won a championship in a major-league sport. Scientists predict this will not happen again for ~750 million years.
That's all I got.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Coming from someone with a space nutter username like yours, I would expect no less.
I just think the accolades on Slashdot are worded in a way that is very much over the top, that's all.
BTW, I realize you may have misinterpreted my post. I was referring to the young women who worked as camp counselors, not the kids attending camp (although the age difference typically wasn't that large).
Cleveland finally won a championship in a major-league sport.
And then the Indians go and blow a 3-1 lead in the World Series.
Miyazaki announced that he was coming out of semi-retirement (again) to do another feature film.
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Has anything happened this year that hasn't been an unmitigated disaster?
Cubs win world series.
Fuller House
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Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
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John Glenn was my hero growing up as a little kid. I remember watching the Discovery launch in 1998 while I was in school. For art class one year I made an astronaut suit (with the help of my parents). I had several VHS tapes about him. If it weren't for him I wouldn't have a lot of good memories as a child. Thanks John, not just for what you did for me, but also everyone else. RIP.
Because now we're so risk-averse we can't even let kids play in the park by themselves without the parents getting arrested.
And someday soon it will be considered gross negligence to let your kid play in the park even with a pair of redundant personal security drones. And that's a good thing.
Ok, this will show my age... I don't really remember it, but my parents (who will NOT allow me to have it), have a photo of me during Glenn's historic flight. I was doing the "potty training" back in '62 and didn't want to miss the flight, so I grabbed my potty chair, brought it into the living room, sat it right in front of the television set (glorious old Zenith black & white 19" model) and we BOTH had a blast off. They have shown me the photo from time to time over the past 50 odd years. I'm just glad I grew up in the era BEFORE smartphones/youtube/social media, so I don't have THAT following me around like the younger generation does today.
Against Miami?
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Cubs win world series.
I'm from Cleveland.
Have gnu, will travel.
I think we're only beginning to see the karmic backfire from that win. Clearly they didn't just sacrifice a few goats to overcome the curse -- given the other events of 2016, I think the Cubs (or their fans) made a deal with the Prince of Darkness himself or something.
Most insightful of the comments that got the mod. More deserving if you considered the topic a bit more broadly, for example by appealing to the orange counterexample who is about to occupy the White House.
I think the answers to your question largely revolve around economic models. Or you might prefer to see the situation in terms of the "military-industrial complex" that Ike warned us about, but I still think that's just another version of the money thing. I don't want to call it a "money problem" because I think problems should be defined in terms of solutions, and there is no solution for infinite greed, just as there is no final digit of pi. People like Trump will never have enough money.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
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Sick burn!
but of course you have to prop it up by saying "First American", to make that space-race loss look a bit smaller.