Quotes About John Glenn

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

John Glenn's life will long be remembered for his time in space, his courage, and his service to all Americans.

John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.

Dmitri-9: But the one I hated the most was the American space chimp., Ham, they called him. Handsome Ham! 'The John Glenn Of The Apes.' Did that privileged Capitalist shit ever have to drive a tractor?

I was involved, like John Glenn and some of the other astronauts, with a particular church. So I felt it was appropriate for me to demonstrate my Christian background [by taking Communion on the moon]. Today, my philosophy is more like what Albert Einstein called a cosmic sense of a greater power involved in the creation of the universe. It's very nonspecific.

twenty-four astronauts hail from the swing state of Ohio—more than from any other state—including John Glenn (America's first to orbit Earth) and Neil Armstrong (the world's first to walk on the Moon).

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.

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

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].