John Glenn reunites with Mercury team

CBSnews.com ^ | February 18, 2012

[Deo volente]

(AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA's Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight.

The first American to orbit the Earth thanked the approximately 125 retired Mercury workers, now in their 70s and 80s, who gathered with their spouses at Kennedy Space Center to swap stories, pose for pictures and take a bow.

[Texas resident]

john glenn was a hero.

He was a Marine avaiator and a pioneer astronaut.

Then he blew it buy defending clinton from prosecution in exchange for another ride in space.

nice going there john.

putz.

[Vermont Lt]

I used to drive by his home every day on the way to work. There were some pretty cool Alan Shepard moon souviniers in the Mayors office.

I really like Derry back in the day.

[Lancey Howard]

In any event, Shepard was the only American to precede Glenn into space.
Grissom was after.

Also, I have an old book from circa 1960 about the X15 that says Chuck Yeager was the first man in space.

[donna]

I was in 6th grade and our teacher rolled in a "portable television set" to watch live!

We were almost more astonished by a TV in school than the space trip, LOL

[Lancey Howard]

Ooopss... My bad.
Grissom DID go into space before Glenn.
I stand corrected by myself..

[hinckley buzzard]

Glenn didn't endear himself to women either when he strongly objected that women couldn't be astronauts. Just one of the things he was wrong about. I believe he still has unpaid campaign debts from his abortive run for the preisdency back in the fog of time. I guess repaying debts is for the little people to worry about.

[hinckley buzzard]

I think it was test pilot Yeager who teased the astronauts about how they weren't doing anything a monkey hadn't done first.

He was right of course. The earliest astronauts were just along for the ride.

[junta]

For the most part but I believe it was Carpenter on his joyride used up his steering jet fuel and screwed up his reentry and landed way off course.

[donna]

when he strongly objected that women couldn't be astronauts. Just one of the things he was wrong about.

I don't know, space travel is dead. Men always lose interest when women move into a profession.

[KingNo155]

John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA’s Project Mercury who didn't try selling out their country just to get another ride on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight.

[KingNo155]

Glad to hear you come from a fine line .......... of SELL OUTS

[laweeks]

John Glenn is my relative. Even though he was a Democrat, I am still proud of him.

Glenn is one of the pieces of garbage that Ohio has foisted on America, such as Kucinich and Metzenbaum. All three are worthless. I'm ashamed of him and always will be.

[Erasmus]

Not in the X-15; Yeager was not a pilot in that program.

Nine X-15 drivers qualified for astronaut wings by NASA criteria (50 mi) and one of them also by FIA criteria (100 kM). I think these were the only Americans who got to space in an aerospace plane.

[Erasmus]

There was a Mercury capsule on my best friend's birthday cake at one party I went to.

It's a good thing the EPA wasn't around back then!

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