To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate. John Glenn More Quotes by John Glenn More Quotes From John Glenn 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. John Glenn things good think security 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. John Glenn medical space research people 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. John Glenn good money research people 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. John Glenn fly myself war world 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. John Glenn you reading history people When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure. John Glenn become new adventure people Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing. John Glenn something doing you fear I supported the efforts in Honduras to stop the flow of arms from Nicaragua across to El Salvador. John Glenn stop nicaragua arms flow 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. John Glenn think body morning way People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime. John Glenn go want talking people 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 beginning think space death I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time. John Glenn say space dream time The time will come when we permit more people in space. John Glenn will space time people To me, we have never really exploited our ability in low-Earth orbit. John Glenn really never me ability I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times. John Glenn true seen about grit
