50 years ago today.

That was an interesting time to be a young boy. The astronauts were larger than life. The feats they accomplished were stuff of supermen. To go into space and safely return. We learned everything we could about each one of them and pretended to be astonauts.

I can remember going for a ride on a hilly road and feeling butterflies in my stomach. For a split second I was weightless and could only dream of what it was like to be in a weightless environment.

This was all part of the "space race" with the Soviet Union. Getting to the moon first was the national priority to beat the Russians. John Glenn's first space flight was the first step.
 
Geico266 said:
That was an interesting time to be a young boy. The astronauts were larger than life. The feats they accomplished were stuff of supermen. To go into space and safely return. We learned everything we could about each one of them and pretended to be astonauts.

I can remember going for a ride on a hilly road and feeling butterflies in my stomach. For a split second I was weightless and could only dream of what it was like to be in a weightless environment.

This was all part of the "space race" with the Soviet Union. Getting to the moon first was the national priority to beat the Russians. John Glenn's first space flight was the first step.
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What about the steps that preceded Glenn's space flight?
 
jumping the gun a little there...
 
Well, no one else posted on the actual day, so I will. Heard an interview with him on NPR. They mentioned that he recently sold his P-Baron since both he and his wife Annie recently had knee replacement surgery. I was at the 99's Convention in Washington in 2006 where Annie was getting the Katherine Wright Award (http://naa.aero/html/awards/index.cfm?newsid=240&cmsid=58).
 
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