To: johnk
Given Glenn's age (95), he has truly lived an amazing and long life. One really wonders why Glenn wasn't chosen to fly any of the Gemini missions or even the early Apollo missions.
4 posted on
12/08/2016 7:35:20 AM PST by
RayChuang88
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To: RayChuang88
why Glenn wasn't chosen to fly any of the Gemini missions
As I recall, Glenn fell in the bathroom, had a concussion or something, and was disqualified from further space missions.
13 posted on
12/08/2016 7:41:55 AM PST by
Genoa
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To: RayChuang88
One really wonders why Glenn wasn't chosen to fly any of the Gemini missions or even the early Apollo missions. The story was that during the Cold War, Glenn became such an American hero as the first American to orbit the Earth, that Kennedy barred him from future space flight because he didn't want to risk a mishap that killed Glenn.
That's why I didn't begrudge him the reward of a shuttle flight by Bill Clinton after Glenn spearheaded Clinton's impeachment defense in the Senate.
-PJ
16 posted on
12/08/2016 7:43:36 AM PST by
Political Junkie Too
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To: RayChuang88
A much better astronaut than U.S. Senator.
17 posted on
12/08/2016 7:44:08 AM PST by
Vigilanteman
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To: RayChuang88
22 posted on
12/08/2016 7:47:16 AM PST by
Theophilus
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To: RayChuang88
One really wonders why Glenn wasn't chosen to fly any of the Gemini missions or even the early Apollo missions. According to Tom Wolf in The Right Stuff Glenn was too popular to risk losing in further missions. His boyish and earnest persona had made him a celebrity, and NASA feared that if he were killed in a space mission, it might derail the entire U.S. manned space program.
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