The 54+ John Glenn Quotes

We Thought That The Odds Of Things Working Ok Were Up In The Upper 90 Percent Or We Wouldn't Have Gone. But The - There Were Some Problems Cropped Up On The Flight But Was Able To Take Care Of Those Ok And - Although They Were Things That We Hadn't Really Trained That Much For. But It Was The Time Of The Cold War And So There Were Was A Lot Of Pressure On The - To Get Going And The Russians Were Claiming That They Were - Soviets Were Claiming They Were Ahead Of Us In Technology.

I Think That It's Good For Us To Be Able To Travel In Space And Do Research In Space, And I Emphasize The Research, Because Space Travel To Me Is Far More Than Just Seeing How Far We Can Go.

I Think We're A Long Ways From Really Putting Colonies Of People Out There Who Would Live Their Whole Lives Out There In Space. I Don't See That Happening For Quite Some Time.

Exploration, Of Course, Is Going To New Places, But I Don't Think We Go To New Places Just Solely To Say: "well, We've Been There," And Come Back, Interesting Though It May Be. To Me, Each Time We Go Farther Into Space We Should Use That To Do Basic Research - Basic Research That Can't Be Done Before You Go There.

America Put More Money Into Research, Into The New And The Unknown Than Any Nation In History, And The Same Thing With Education, And Those Two Things Led Us Into A Worldwide Preeminence In A Very Short Period Of Time.

I Don't Like The Way The Whole Thing Has Developed. And I Just Hope That We Develop Our Own Transportation System, Both Spacecraft And New Boosters, As Soon As Possible. I Hate To Think That We May Be Out There Seven To Ten Years Out And Dependent On The Russians For Our Journey Into Space.

There Had Been A Number Of Failures But We Weren't Going Out To Ride A Failure. And We Felt They'd Corrected All The Difficulties With The Boosters Before That Time And The Launch Problems. And So We Had A Lot Of Confidence That There Was Going To Be A Successful Mission. We Weren't Off On Some Suicide Effort, Certainly.

It Was The Time Of The Cold War And So There Were Was A Lot Of Pressure On The - To Get Going And The Russians Were Claiming That They Were - Soviets Were Claiming They Were Ahead Of Us In Technology. And So It Was Against That Backdrop That The Early Space Flights Took Off.

I Still Have My [flight] License And I Can Still Pass A Flight Physical.

As Far As Actually Setting Up Colonies Of People Who Would Live Their Whole Lives In Space, I Think We're A Long Ways From Doing That Yet, And I Think We Have Many, Many Decades Before We Could Be Able To Even Consider Something Like That.

If We Could Do Something That Enhances The Body's Immune System Here On Earth, It Would Be A Tremendous Step Forward In The Fight Against Disease And Cancer And Other Things.

In America, We Have No Means Of Getting To Our Own Space Station. We Have To Pay The Russians To Put Our People Up There To Send Them Into Space - Rendezvous With The Station And Bring Them Back At The End Of Their Stay, And That To Me Is Just Wrong. We're Supposed To Be The World's Greatest Space-faring Nation, And To Cancel Our Own Means Of Getting There I Thought Was A Mistake, Even Though It Would Save Some Money.