John Glenn Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

  John Glenn

  Men, Space, People

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• 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

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• That was a real fireball.

  John Glenn

  Real, Moon, Star Gazing

  Transcript of Communication With the Mission Control Center, NASA, 1962, www.nasa.gov. January 06, 2010.

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

  John Glenn

  America, Individual, Emphasis

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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

  John Glenn

  Get Over, Stills

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

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• 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

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• We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly [with Friendship 7].

  John Glenn

  Suicide, Successful, Effort

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Liftoff is very, very gentle, contrary to what most people think. Because you remember, the weight of the booster - the amount of thrust on the engine is just barely enough to get the booster underway. And so it's a very gentle liftoff, contrary to what most people think when they see all the fire and smoke of launch.

  John Glenn

  Thinking, Fire, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

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

  John Glenn

  Flight, Stills, License

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

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• Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

  John Glenn

  Law, America, Want

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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. And so it was against that backdrop that the early space flights took off.

  John Glenn

  War, Technology, Space Flight

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

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