America's hero reserves judged to be running low America lost one of its indisputable heroes -- and the last surviving astronaut from Project Mercury -- Thursday as John Glenn passed away at the age of 95. He was a fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, a test pilot who set a 1957 record for transcontinental flight, piloting a supersonic F8U-1 Crusader from coast to coast in 3 hours and 23 minutes. And of course he was the first American to orbit the Earth -- not the first in space; that honor went to Alan Shepard and then Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who both made suborbital flights first. But on Feb. 20, 1962, Glenn became the first American to orbit the planet, circling it three times before splashing down safely in the Atlantic -- after a scare that the Mercury capsule's heat shield was loose. It turned out to be a faulty indicator light. The
Okay, now I know I'm older than Doktor Zoom, the kindest, warmest, etc. Young Zyxomma sent for the Mercury 7 promo kit, which included 8x10 glossies of the astronauts and the Mercury capsule. I even knew that the first man to fly faster than sound successfully was test pilot Chuck Yeager, whose drawl is the prototype for the way pilots speak. RIP, John Glenn and Greg Lake. I really, really want to erase 2016.
Meh. Sorry to piss in the pool, but Glenn always seemed to me this pain-in-the-ass Christer who sat in a seat and rode that to unending fame and adulation.
I read the book The Right Stuff long before I knew there was going to be a movie. He broke the sound barrier successfully, and that was a really, really big deal.
You had to be there. I was in elementary school in 1962. No one knew how the human body would react to being in space long enough to orbit. There was fear the capsule would ignite on re-entry. It was a very big deal. Our whole school watched the flight and re-entry. It was fantastic! Don't be bitter, Bitter. Mercury astronauts were great.
My room is so hot, my eyeballs are sweating... Damn you Wonkette. All my feels, all over John Glen and the lost, never was glory that was America.I hate who Trump is turning us into.
And for almost a day, he's kept everything Trump second on google news.
A chance to remember what America was once, before Trumpolini sells it all off.
I remember the flight. I still have my vinyl album, Go, Col Glenn in Orbit, with the sound from CapCom, Houston, and him in orbit.
"Japan wife or Sweden wife?"
I'm with John Oliver on this one....... Fuck You 2016
Armstrong is gone, Glenn is gone ... someone make sure Buzz Aldrin's doing all right in quarantine.
I would like to see Buzz Aldrin punch at least one more Apollo 11-denying dweeb right in the kisser before he slips the surly bonds of earth for good.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
You're mistaken. That guy assaulted Buzz with his face! Besides, no one saw anything. Nothing. Didn't happen. That's why the judge threw it out...
Columbia and Endeavor are also the names of two of the space shuttles. Holy shit, is this how they got those names? Is this fucking NASA lore??
Okay, now I know I'm older than Doktor Zoom, the kindest, warmest, etc. Young Zyxomma sent for the Mercury 7 promo kit, which included 8x10 glossies of the astronauts and the Mercury capsule. I even knew that the first man to fly faster than sound successfully was test pilot Chuck Yeager, whose drawl is the prototype for the way pilots speak. RIP, John Glenn and Greg Lake. I really, really want to erase 2016.
Meh. Sorry to piss in the pool, but Glenn always seemed to me this pain-in-the-ass Christer who sat in a seat and rode that to unending fame and adulation.
I never understood why Yeager was featured in "The Right Stuff" or what the hell he ever had to do with anything.
I read the book The Right Stuff long before I knew there was going to be a movie. He broke the sound barrier successfully, and that was a really, really big deal.
You had to be there. I was in elementary school in 1962. No one knew how the human body would react to being in space long enough to orbit. There was fear the capsule would ignite on re-entry. It was a very big deal. Our whole school watched the flight and re-entry. It was fantastic! Don't be bitter, Bitter. Mercury astronauts were great.
The museum in Huntsville is wonderful. The Mercury capsules are tiny.
My room is so hot, my eyeballs are sweating... Damn you Wonkette. All my feels, all over John Glen and the lost, never was glory that was America.I hate who Trump is turning us into.
Two repig skkkum politicians flew on the shuttle before Glenn.
While John was the obvious choice for sending a Senator into space they sent momocultist Jake Garn first. Because, repig.
Glenn had portfolio. Didn't just sit in the seat.
Did you even read this article much less study Sen. Glenn's actual life?