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To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body p...

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An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is ...

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Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son'...

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The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you’re doing.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math a...

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The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do res...

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I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.

John Glenn: A Memoir

I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It ...

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There is still no cure for the common birthday.

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John Glenn

Former United States Senator

Born: 1921-07-18

Died: 2016-12-08

John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (18 July 1921 - 8 December 2016), (Col, USMC, Ret.), was a Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States senator. He was selected as 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. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. Glenn received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990.More