Word: astronauts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adjusting to microgravity. Not to mention the "godspeed" references uttered ad nauseam Thursday, or the fact that when the shuttle flight passed the mark of Glenn?s previous extraterrestrial excursion ?- four hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds ?- it was conspicuously pored over. Now that the aged astronaut is in uncharted territory, however, the nostalgia trip has nowhere left to go. "I don?t know what happens down the line," he said, "but today is beautiful and great." Amen, John Glenn...
...felt euphoric seeing John Glenn on the cover of TIME in an astronaut's suit [SPACE, Aug. 17]. How refreshing to see a 77-year-old taking a ride in space instead of one in a wheelchair. It was fantastic for Glenn to say "Politics is not only an honorable profession, it's one of the most honorable ones." With more John Glenns in politics, it could be. He certainly has the Right Stuff! VIRGINIA EVERS Dayton, Ohio...
TIME: You've been an astronaut, a Senator and an astronaut again. What's next...
...formally pitched his case for returning to space. "I told him there are 34 million Americans over 65, and that's due to triple in the next 50 years," Glenn recalls. "And I told him someone ought to look into this." Goldin, savvy about the wiles of flight-hungry astronauts--even flight-hungry astronauts who haven't flown in 34 years--saw medical merit in the argument and offered Glenn a deal. If the science held up to peer review, he promised, and if Glenn could get past the same physical every other astronaut must pass, NASA would seriously consider...
...response was not quite as enthusiastic at home, where Annie Glenn, the astronaut's wife of 55 years, had to be told the news. Having sweated through her husband's 149 combat missions and one five-hour Mercury mission, Annie had long since become accustomed to Glenn's doing outsize things and incurring outsize risks. In the eighth decade of life, however, she justifiably assumed all that was behind her. "Annie was a little cool to the idea to begin with," Glenn confesses. But in the tradition of a military and NASA wife, she listened to his reasons for wanting...