John Glenn Quotes
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I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.
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People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.
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In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.
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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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As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.
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I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.
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In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.
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I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
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You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.
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The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.
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Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.
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I have no political affiliations and have always and do now consider myself an independent.
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One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.
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You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.
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I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.
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Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.
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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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To me, there is no greater calling … If I can inspire young people to dedicate themselves to the good of mankind, I've accomplished something.
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If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
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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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It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.
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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.