[Calvin Locke]

I read that it was JFK that put the kibosh on Glen because he was a
"national hero".

In any case, Glen should have been brought up on treason charges
for helping to prevent a Senate committee from looking into
foreign campaign donations to Clinton and the DNC.

How do you think he got his shuttle ride? There were better
qualified people to run the "age" experiments than him. Clinton
paid him off with a return to space.

My original beef with him is that he should have been booted out of
Congress, along with McCain, for participating in the thrift
fraud back in the early 1980s.

[buccaneer81]

I read at the time that the NASA rank and file were furious that Glenn got a spot on the shuttle. The overwhelming choice, for many reasons, was Chuck Yeager. He would have been perfect.