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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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One of the greatest now at least won't have to see the end of the US as a functioning country and global power.
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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..
I don't know why people feel the need to be so over the top with their praise for this man. He was known as a self-promoting a-hole. My college roomate worked at Space Camp in Huntsville and saw him up close and said he was a complete asshole to everyone else. This was decades ago, but he was still not young anymore, and he thought he should have his pick of the young ladies there.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
but of course you have to prop it up by saying "First American", to make that space-race loss look a bit smaller.