Tag: John Glenn

Get off the couch

  Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don’t sit on a couch someplace. American colonel, astronaut, and politician, John Glenn, was born on this day in 1921 (died 2016). Hey you kids! Get off muh couch. Or, in this house, it’s “Hey you dogs, get off my couch.” Nice try. I’m …

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John Glenn’s Flight: 50 Years Ago Today

John Glenn orbited the Earth in Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962.