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. John Glenn More Quotes by John Glenn More Quotes From John Glenn On K-12 education America has gone down, down, down compared to the other nations. It doesn't mean that we have gotten dumber. It just means that we have not advanced as fast in those areas as other nations have done, and we're way down right now. John Glenn gone mean america I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical. John Glenn flight license stills 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. John Glenn space-flight technology war That whole day [ of the space flight] is very vividly impressed on my memory because it was such a new experience. We hadn't done that before. And then I've recalled it so often since then I think that it's a - it's remained very vivid over the past 50 years, seems to me like about a week or two instead of 50 years. John Glenn memories past thinking 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. John Glenn successful suicide numbers 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. John Glenn hate journey thinking 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. John Glenn research two america 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. John Glenn mistake mean america I think sometime we will go to Mars and I think we'll explore it with humans sometime, but I think it's really wise to do all the robotic exploration ahead of time and learn as much as possible. Once we have learned as much as possible with the robots, then that's the time to send people, and let them then continue the research that the robots have started. John Glenn wise people thinking 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. John Glenn space long thinking 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. John Glenn space interesting thinking 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. John Glenn space long thinking 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. John Glenn space research thinking 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. John Glenn technology odds war You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions. John Glenn your feel you life You can't relive your life. John Glenn relive your you life I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living. John Glenn more living not-interested legacy Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace. John Glenn sit old dreams like Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard. John Glenn call cannot enough foolish As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all. 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