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You know, old folks can have ...

You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.

John Glenn Jr. 30 quotes

Everywhere that Americans spr...

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.

John Glenn Jr. 30 quotes

The political graveyards are ...

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

John Glenn Jr. 30 quotes

I liked flying, when I got in...

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

John Glenn Jr. 30 quotes

As far as entertainment, 'The...

As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.

John Glenn Jr. 30 quotes

I supported the efforts in Ho...

I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.

John Glenn Jr. 30 quotes

If you go to the Air and Spac...

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

John Glenn Jr. 30 quotes

The conquest of space is not ...

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.

John Glenn Jr. 30 quotes

I think even in bad times it'...

I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.

John Glenn Jr. 30 quotes

I think in America we have to...

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 Jr. 30 quotes

People keep talking about how...

People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.

John Glenn Jr. 30 quotes

If we could do something that...

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 Jr. 30 quotes

America is in a newly competi...

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.

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America put more money into r...

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.

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I think that it's good for us...

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.

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I think sometime we will go t...

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.

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We thought that the odds of t...

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.

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There had been a number of fa...

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.

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That whole day [ of the space...

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 Jr. 30 quotes

We had an airplane, a Beechcr...

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 Jr. 30 quotes

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