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We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

~John Glenn

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Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

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Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

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We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

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Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.

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Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

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The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

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Everywhere that Americans spread off the Eastern seaboard, heading west across this country, they put up the schoolhouse first, hired a schoolteacher, and put all the kids in school.

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I have no political affiliations and have always and do now consider myself an independent.

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I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Astronaut

Born: July 18th, 1921

Died: December 8th, 2016

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