American - Astronaut | July 18, 1921 - December 8, 2016
The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.
John Glenn
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I've never let people push me around in politics.
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It's something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.
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In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.
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I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.
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We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.
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Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.
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Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.
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We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.
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Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.
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The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.
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Everywhere that Americans spread off the Eastern seaboard, heading west across this country, they put up the schoolhouse first, hired a schoolteacher, and put all the kids in school.
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