John Glenn Quotes

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John Glenn

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : July 18, 1921

I have no political affiliations and have always and do now consider myself an independent.

John Glenn

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

John Glenn

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

John Glenn

The Discovery was the most intricate, complex machine man has ever built. It's a testament to our time.

John Glenn

Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

John Glenn

People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.

John Glenn

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

John Glenn

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

John Glenn

It's something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.

John Glenn

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

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.

John Glenn