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[Bystander]

 

[dlgoff]

I had just heard this morning that he was ill. Had no idea just how ill.

 

[Nidum]

Godspeed , John Glenn

 

[Evo]

R.I.P.

John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts was 95.

Glenn died at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where he was hospitalized for more than a week, said Hank Wilson, communications director for the John Glenn School of Public Affairs.

John Herschel Glenn Jr. had two major career paths that often intersected: flying and politics, and he soared in both of them.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-astronaut-us-sen-john-glenn-ohio-died-203210458.html

 

[Borek]

The only good thing about 2016 is that it is going to end soon.

 

[Borg]

I heard yesteday that he had been in the hospital for a week. Very sorry to see one of the great ones go.

The only good thing about 2016 is that it is going to end soon.

I recently saw a Last Week Tonight episode that ended with several minutes people saying of F... 2016. My sentiments exactly.

 

[BillTre]

Many years ago I saw a cartoon about John Glenn.
It was after he went into space a second time (in 1998, at the age of 77).
An old couple in a car,
wife is complaining about how her husband should be doing something now that he is retired, like John Glenn.
His response was "Curse you John Glenn".

 

[Nidum]

It may be beyond the comprehension of people born in more recent times but the space race in the 1950/60 period had the whole world enthralled .

The usually excellent tv transmissions covering the different missions had whole families on the edge of their seats gripped with excitement .

The space race coincided roughly in time with a period of rapid technological development in many other fields as well .

Ordinary people both young and old came to be interested and knowledgeable about a great deal about space technology and science in general .

The space race probably encouraged a whole generation of school children to become engineers and scientists .

 

[dlgoff]

It may be beyond the comprehension of people born in more recent times but the space race in the 1950/60 period had the whole world enthralled .

I remember at age 10 my father awaking and telling me of the Soviet Union's successfully launch of Sputnik I; then my world became more enthralled.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

What a legend!