News RIP John Glenn

[NukeET]

Now all 7 of my original heroes are dead.


Godspeed John Glenn.

 

[BenSisko]

All of the Mercury 7 are gone now. I was 9 when John Glenn lifted off in Friendship 7. I made a mock up of a Mercury capsule out of cardboard boxes. At the time, an edition of the Weekly Reader had an illustration of the Mercury's instrument panel. I took every copy I could find and pasted one inside my mock up. I spent hours in that thing imagining liftoff, orbit, retro fire (if you remember, there was some concern about Friendship 7's heat shield so mission control had Glenn retain the retro rockets rather than jettisoning them to help keep the heat shield in place), and reentry.
We may not have been the first in orbit and the whole process was a Cold War proxy for a battle between East and West but the men and women behind the space program really accomplished great things. Rest In Peace John Glenn and all of the Mercury 7...

 

[jgrillo2002]

STS-95 playlist on Youtube: CNN Coverage of STS-95 (The Return of John Glenn to Space) Part 1 - YouTube

Yea I wanted to create the STS-95 addon, using existing addons such as Spacehab. I also know that they launched a micro satellite to space but that isnt made in orbiter yet.

 

[padrat42]

He was the last of the Mercury 7. The dawn of the space age is slipping further and further into recent memory.

I think Scott Carpenter is still living.

 

[DaveS]

I think Scott Carpenter is still living.

He did three years ago (October 10 2013).

 

[NukeET]

I was 10 year old when John Glenn launched...

...I was 9 when John Glenn lifted off in Friendship 7.

I thought I was old here on the forum. I was exactly 2 weeks old that day.

GodSpeed John Glenn

 

[Zatnikitelman]

The Cagle comic site has a good John Glenn tribute series: http://www.cagle.com/news/john-glenn-death/

 

[Andy44]

Amy has a video about it:

 

[jroly]

I think many Americans are going to be upset by this one too http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/b...igatti-creator-of-the-big-mac-dies-at-98.html

 

[zerofay32]

I got to chat with John several times over lunch while I was a student at Ohio State University. He had an office on campus and I would eat lunch in a small common area outside it. Didn't even realize his office was on that floor until he sat down next to me and asked where I had gotten the slice of pizza I was eating :lol: . Great man, and a great Ohioan. God Speed!

 

[Nicholas Kang]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let us pay our respect to Space Pioneer John Glenn.

Very sad to see him leaving...

[ame="https://twitter.com/nasahqphoto/status/809879952346808321"]NASA HQ PHOTO on Twitter: "Annie Glenn, widow of John Glenn pays her respects @OhioStatehouse Rotunda. #JohnGlenn. More: https://t.co/Y2O2MHTm0Y https://t.co/XeWIjgRJn8"[/ame]

News: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...programs-celebrating-space-pioneer-john-glenn

NASA Television will air two programs live from Ohio celebrating the life of U.S. Marine, NASA astronaut and Ohio senator John Glenn today and Saturday, Dec. 17.

Visitors will pay their respects to Glenn from 4 to 7 p.m. EST Friday at the Ohio Statehouse rotunda, where he will lay in repose under the Ohio State seal, guarded for 24 hours by the U.S. Marine Corps Honor Guard.