#john glenn

[rawyld]

Hey its ok, I finally got back into space since this is what started me on the path way back in 1999 with the Apollo 13 movie.

“it was just like a movie it was just like a song my God, this reminds me of when we were young”

[asmileworthahundredlies]

Glen Powell’s body photographed by Renée Rodenkirchen.

[lonestarflight]

The Mission Control Room at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) mission.

Date: February 20, 1962

NASA ID: 62-MA6-161

[yz]

John Glenn’s Vought F-8 Crusader, aboard the USS Midway. San Diego, 2019.

[rawyld]

Brothers.

(Credit to NASA)

[rockyp77mk3]

20 Feb. 1962: John Glenn relaxes aboard the USS Noa after being recovered from the Atlantic near Grand Turk Island after his historic Mercury flight. Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth in his "Friendship 7" capsule. The Noa picked him up 21 minutes after splashdown.

[rawyld]

Chapter 5 is up.

[dreamofstarlight]

Bobby Kennedy with his kids Chris and Max along with John Glenn on a ride at Disney Land - June 2, 1968

[edwhiteandblue]

February 20, 1962: 40-year-old John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth during his Mercury-Atlas 6 flight.

A tiny fragment of this large achievement was a secret contingency plan known as Operation Dirty Trick, which essentially would have blamed Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and his government if Glenn’s mission had failed. Its goal was to provide hard evidence that a potential space disaster was caused by the Cuban government. One of dozens of plans aimed at removing Castro from power, Dirty Trick was shot down by President Kennedy almost immediately after it was proposed.

Read more about Operation Dirty Trick here!

[rawyld]

Oh I know about that story thanks to Moon Shot documentary on Youtube.

I’ve never seen any of these photos in color before! Mercury Seven scuba training photographed by Ralph Morse, summer of 1959.

Scott Carpenter was the most natural in the water (and later became a proud and accomplished aquanaut). At this point, Deke (in the outstanding bright red, floral trunks) either still didn’t know how to swim or had just learned. As Wally said, “Deke Slayton was the best diver we had—he went right to the bottom! Gus Grissom and I had to pull him off the bottom, and help him tread water.”

[commodorez]

John Glenn's first and second rides into space, 36 years apart.

Mercury MA-6 Friendship 7 - February 20, 1962

STS-95 Space Shuttle Discovery - October 29-November 7, 1998

Udvar-Hazy Center - Chantilly, VA

[deadpresidents]

Is there anyone who could have given Reagan a bigger challenge than Walter Mondale did in 1984?

If John Glenn had just hired the right people and put together a better campaign strategy (and maybe had a bit more political charisma), he could have absolutely been able to give Ronald Reagan a run for his money in 1984.

Reagan's whole political identity was that he was the most All-Americany All-American that ever stepped foot on the political scene and that he was going to fight Communism and make America that shining city on a hill. Imagine if he had to run against John Fucking Glenn -- a fighter pilot in World War II and Korea who literally fought Communists in real combat. Oh, and then he was one of the Mercury Seven and just so happened to be the first American astronaut to ever orbit the Earth. John Glenn wasn't just an astronaut -- he was the image that people had in their heads when they thought about what an astronaut was. He's still the definition of astronaut to most Americans. He was also buddies with JFK and RFK and when he retired from NASA -- again, he was a fucking ASTRONAUT, in case I didn't make that clear -- instead of moving to Florida and going golfing, he became a U.S. Senator. Not only should John Glenn have been able to out-All-American Ronald Reagan, but he should have been able to make Reagan seem like Leonid Brezhnev. I mean, just picture Reagan trying to get cute in a debate and making some sort of joke and then Glenn saying, "I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you correctly. My ears are still adjusting from when I was a fighter pilot who shot down three actual MiG-15s and then became a FUCKING ASTRONAUT WHO ORBITED THE EARTH."

But when Glenn did seek the Democratic nomination in 1984, he ran a really crappy campaign and somehow lost to Walter Mondale (who went on to lose 49 out of 50 states to Reagan in the general election). Glenn's campaign is one of the all-time missed opportunities. He was running for President just a few months after The Right Stuff came out and reminded Americans that Glenn was not only an astronaut but THE astronaut! His campaign should have held screenings of that movie in every early primary state and just had Glenn serving apple pie and Coca-Cola outside every theater while wearing his space suit and sitting in a fighter jet and reminding folks that Reagan's "combat" duties during World War II was making training films in Burbank.

I don't know who ran John Glenn's disastrous 1984 Presidential campaign, but it was political malpractice. Just answering this question makes me mad because it's so obvious that he was the PERFECT candidate to run against Ronald Reagan. HE WAS JOHN GLENN. He was such a legendary astronaut that, years later, when NASA wanted to send an old guy to space to study the effects of space flight on aging people, they sent him! He was almost 80 years old and passed the same physicals as young astronauts! How the hell did Glenn lose the Democratic nomination to Mondale? John Glenn lost to a guy named "Fritz"! I can't believe that John Glenn couldn't even beat the guy who got beat in 49 out of 50 states in 1984.

I can't believe how frustrated I am from answering this question and slowly realizing the sheer political malpractice of John Glenn's failed 1984 Presidential campaign.

[lonestarflight]

"Launch of Friendship 7, the first American manned orbital space flight. Astronaut John Glenn aboard, the Mercury-Atlas rocket is launched from Pad 14."

Date: February 20, 1962

NASA ID: S62-00363, S62-00337, KSC-62PC-0011

[freekicks]

do you think the mercury seven ever explored each other’s bodies

[charring58]

#JohnGlenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962.[3] Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a U.S. Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at the age of 77.

[susiestamps]

US 1962 4¢ Project Mercury: Colonel John Glenn's Space Flight