....GOD SPEED JOHN GLENN.....

[beana51]

50 years since first US orbit. First American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962. Oldest person to fly in space, at age 77 aboard shuttle Discovery in 1998. U.S. senator for four terms and one-time presidential candidate. Namesake of a NASA center as well as a university's school of public affairs. Now 90 and living in Columbus, Ohio, Glenn just recently gave up flying and sold his twin-engine Beechcraft Baron. It was tough hopping up on a wing to climb aboard the plane. Glenn and his wife, Annie, who turns 92 on Friday, both had knee replacements last year. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight. . .The RIGHT STUFF of YESTERYEAR!...when comes another???....not in my life time I fear..or for my kids at this rate..... ...NASA!....in mothballs!!...

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[Jagdflieger]

He's a true hero.

 

[Wing_Z]

He's a true hero.

"Hero" is a much-abused word, I fear.
But Glenn qualifies, all right.
I do admire Alan Shepard, too, going boldly where no man (OK, one other) had gone before.
I agree: Theirs was a golden era of THE RIGHT STUFF.

 

[Railrunner130]

Geech. Don't scare me like that! With a headline like that I thought he had passed.