Latest John Glenn Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  John Glenn

  Cancer, Fighting, Steps

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• 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.

  John Glenn

  School, America, Track

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• 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.

  John Glenn

  Mean, America, Gone

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• 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.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, America, Research

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• America is in a newly competitive position around the world, and unless we keep our lead in education for all of our people and do the research along with that, other nations will start outdoing us and they will be leaders in the world.

  John Glenn

  America, People, Leader

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general education for all of our people - the K-12 education. Other nations are far, far outdoing the United States in that area. We still have the lead in research, but once again, other nations are pouring more into research also. We still have a lead, but to me it's just very, very important that we keep that lead in basic research.

  John Glenn

  America, People, Important

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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

  John Glenn

  America, Individual, Emphasis

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• 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.

  John Glenn

  Two, America, Research

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• I think sometime we will go to Mars and I think we'll explore it with humans sometime, but I think it's really wise to do all the robotic exploration ahead of time and learn as much as possible. Once we have learned as much as possible with the robots, then that's the time to send people, and let them then continue the research that the robots have started.

  John Glenn

  Wise, Thinking, People

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• In America, we have no means of getting to our own Space Station. We have to pay the Russians to put our people up there to send them into space - rendezvous with the Station and bring them back at the end of their stay, and that to me is just wrong. We're supposed to be the world's greatest space-faring nation, and to cancel our own means of getting there I thought was a mistake, even though it would save some money.

  John Glenn

  Mistake, Mean, America

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• 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.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, Space, Long

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, Space, Long

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• I think no matter where we go in space to me the important thing is not only getting there and getting back, but it's also doing research, because that opens up as a possibility with that new distance of travel in space.

  John Glenn

  Distance, Thinking, Space

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• 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.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, Space, Interesting

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• I think that it's good for us to be able to travel in space and do research in space, and I emphasize the research, because space travel to me is far more than just seeing how far we can go.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, Space, Research

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

• I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.

  John Glenn

  Hate, Thinking, Journey

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  John Glenn

  War, Technology, Odds

  Source: www.npr.org

• There had been a number of failures but we weren't going out to ride a failure. And we felt they'd corrected all the difficulties with the boosters before that time and the launch problems. And so we had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly.

  John Glenn

  Suicide, Successful, Numbers

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  John Glenn

  Hurt, Airplane, Past

  Source: www.npr.org

• I still love to fly and I'll never get over that.

  John Glenn

  Get Over, Stills

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• I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.

  John Glenn

  Flight, Stills, License

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• I don't like the way the whole thing has developed. And I just hope that we develop our own transportation system, both spacecraft and new boosters, as soon as possible. I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.

  John Glenn

  Hate, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

• Because now, you know, it's going to be a number of years yet before we have our own new boosters and new spacecraft to go to our own International Space Station and proceed with all the research that we spent $100 billion putting up there to give us that research capability for the future for people right here on Earth.

  John Glenn

  Years, Numbers, Space

  "Encore: Astronaut John Glenn Recalls Historic Orbit Of Earth". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. February 20, 2012.

• We're going to go to the moon. We're going to go on to Mars. We're going to set up a base on the moon. OK, but no money to pay for it, nothing in the budget for it. And so the decision made at that time was to cancel the whole shuttle program to save money, which I think was very, very short sighted.

  John Glenn

  Moon, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  John Glenn

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org