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Godspeed, John Glenn
December 8, 2016 at
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Sadly, the last of the "Original Seven" astronauts has left this Earth.
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but we also have those worthy of being looked up to like we did astronauts. Elon Musk is making huge strides for the space program. Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the world's top cosmologists. Stephen Hawking leading the way for the science of theoretical physics. and Hanson leading the way on major breakthroughs in the field of Mmmbops. just gotta know where to look, FHRITP.
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Apollo guysMercury Seven there was no precedent and no guidelines. The president wanted test pilots - beyond that it was 'what can we throw at these guys to see if they'll survive.'I really need to read The Right Stuff. I've seen the movie a bunch of times, but I've heard there's a lot more details on that kind of thing in the book.
In the letter, which was presented to Bezos at an awards ceremony Thursday evening as part of the Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Awards, Glenn wrote that in 1962, when he took his historic flight, "you were still two years from being born." When Glenn returned to space in 1998 on a space shuttle mission at age 77, "you were already driven by a vision of space travel accessible not only to highly trained pilots and engineers and scientists, but to all of us," he wrote.
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In the letter, which was presented to Bezos at an awards ceremony Thursday evening as part of the Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Awards, Glenn wrote that in 1962, when he took his historic flight, "you were still two years from being born." When Glenn returned to space in 1998 on a space shuttle mission at age 77, "you were already driven by a vision of space travel accessible not only to highly trained pilots and engineers and scientists, but to all of us," he wrote.
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In the letter, which was presented to Bezos at an awards ceremony Thursday evening as part of the Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Awards, Glenn wrote that in 1962, when he took his historic flight, "you were still two years from being born." When Glenn returned to space in 1998 on a space shuttle mission at age 77, "you were already driven by a vision of space travel accessible not only to highly trained pilots and engineers and scientists, but to all of us," he wrote.
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