Words matter. These are the best John Glenn Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.
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.
The political graveyards are full of people who don’t respond.
I can’t say I’ve ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.
It’s something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.
Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.
Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son’s a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.
To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit.
An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don’t think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.
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.
If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don’t sit on a couch someplace.
In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.
Just to continue a space program because it’s a space program? No, I don’t think we have an obligation for that.
Quite often, while I’m getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it’s not working quite the way it used to.
You can’t relive your life.
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.
I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador.
I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
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.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
I spent 23 years in the military. I think I’m in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.
You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you’re interests are and ambitions.
The space station is the most unique laboratory we’ve ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals – the possibilities are nearly endless.
I’m not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: ‘live-acy.’ I’m more interested in living.
We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in ’98, and they covered the whole gamut.
The time will come when we permit more people in space.
I think even in bad times it’s good to keep some money going into research. And that’s the purpose of the whole space program. It’s not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.
I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I’m not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.
