“But having “astronaut” on your resume does not mean you’d be a good U.S. senator. “
As far as I know, there has been only one, John Glenn. He was a great pilot and will go down in history, flew Corsairs in WWII, and Korea, used a USAF F-86 mount to shoot down three MiG-15s. Made the first supersonic transcontinental flight in an F-8 Crusader. And then followed that up by being a Mercury astronaut before the era of frizzy hair females and pudgy pasty mission specialists claiming to be astronauts.
But as a Senator, he might as well have been Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. A total leftist dud flying on auto-suck behind Howard Metzenbaum.
Horses for courses.
John Glenn was a hero of mine a long time ago.
A Marine Aviator, Astronaut then a US Senator.
Then he became a defender of Clinton and was rewarded with a ride into space at 80 years old or something close to that for stonewalling the accusations against Clinton.
Made me think that it doesn’t take anyone special to go into space and that he was a total sellout to Clinton.