#john glenn

[lonestarflight]

The Mission Control Room at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) mission.

Date: February 20, 1962

NASA ID: 62-MA6-161

#Mercury-Atlas 6 #MA-6 #Friendship 7 #Mercury Spacecraft No. 13 #Mercury #Mercury Program #Project Mercury #NASA #Atlas #Atlas LV-3B #Atlas-109D #Rocket #LC-14 #Cape Canaveral #Kennedy Space Center #Florida #Launch #February #1962 #John Glenn #John Herschel Glenn Jr.

[yz]

John Glenn’s Vought F-8 Crusader, aboard the USS Midway. San Diego, 2019.

#travel #yzshot #aircraft #fighter jet #vought #crusader #navy #us navy #avgeek #aviation #f-8 crusader #john glenn #san diego #uss midway #military #military aviation

[gusgrissom]

The first three American astronauts to fly in the Mercury program. Gus lookin a little skeptical about something.

#gus grissom #john glenn #alan shepard #astronauts #mercury #1960s #*

[edwhiteandblue]

February 20, 1962: 40-year-old John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth during his Mercury-Atlas 6 flight.

A tiny fragment of this large achievement was a secret contingency plan known as Operation Dirty Trick, which essentially would have blamed Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and his government if Glenn’s mission had failed. Its goal was to provide hard evidence that a potential space disaster was caused by the Cuban government. One of dozens of plans aimed at removing Castro from power, Dirty Trick was shot down by President Kennedy almost immediately after it was proposed.

Read more about Operation Dirty Trick here!

#mercury #john glenn

[dreamofstarlight]

Bobby Kennedy with his kids Chris and Max along with John Glenn on a ride at Disney Land - June 2, 1968

#this photo is so bittersweet #robert f kennedy #rfk #bobby kennedy #chris kennedy #christopher kennedy #max kennedy #john glenn #kennedy family #the kennedys

[commodorez]

John Glenn's first and second rides into space, 36 years apart.

Mercury MA-6 Friendship 7 - February 20, 1962

STS-95 Space Shuttle Discovery - October 29-November 7, 1998

Udvar-Hazy Center - Chantilly, VA

#space shuttle #space shuttle discovery #friendship 7 #mercury #project mercury #john glenn #udvar hazy center #discovery

[deadpresidents]

Is there anyone who could have given Reagan a bigger challenge than Walter Mondale did in 1984?

If John Glenn had just hired the right people and put together a better campaign strategy (and maybe had a bit more political charisma), he could have absolutely been able to give Ronald Reagan a run for his money in 1984.

Reagan's whole political identity was that he was the most All-Americany All-American that ever stepped foot on the political scene and that he was going to fight Communism and make America that shining city on a hill. Imagine if he had to run against John Fucking Glenn -- a fighter pilot in World War II and Korea who literally fought Communists in real combat. Oh, and then he was one of the Mercury Seven and just so happened to be the first American astronaut to ever orbit the Earth. John Glenn wasn't just an astronaut -- he was the image that people had in their heads when they thought about what an astronaut was. He's still the definition of astronaut to most Americans. He was also buddies with JFK and RFK and when he retired from NASA -- again, he was a fucking ASTRONAUT, in case I didn't make that clear -- instead of moving to Florida and going golfing, he became a U.S. Senator. Not only should John Glenn have been able to out-All-American Ronald Reagan, but he should have been able to make Reagan seem like Leonid Brezhnev. I mean, just picture Reagan trying to get cute in a debate and making some sort of joke and then Glenn saying, "I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you correctly. My ears are still adjusting from when I was a fighter pilot who shot down three actual MiG-15s and then became a FUCKING ASTRONAUT WHO ORBITED THE EARTH."

But when Glenn did seek the Democratic nomination in 1984, he ran a really crappy campaign and somehow lost to Walter Mondale (who went on to lose 49 out of 50 states to Reagan in the general election). Glenn's campaign is one of the all-time missed opportunities. He was running for President just a few months after The Right Stuff came out and reminded Americans that Glenn was not only an astronaut but THE astronaut! His campaign should have held screenings of that movie in every early primary state and just had Glenn serving apple pie and Coca-Cola outside every theater while wearing his space suit and sitting in a fighter jet and reminding folks that Reagan's "combat" duties during World War II was making training films in Burbank.

I don't know who ran John Glenn's disastrous 1984 Presidential campaign, but it was political malpractice. Just answering this question makes me mad because it's so obvious that he was the PERFECT candidate to run against Ronald Reagan. HE WAS JOHN GLENN. He was such a legendary astronaut that, years later, when NASA wanted to send an old guy to space to study the effects of space flight on aging people, they sent him! He was almost 80 years old and passed the same physicals as young astronauts! How the hell did Glenn lose the Democratic nomination to Mondale? John Glenn lost to a guy named "Fritz"! I can't believe that John Glenn couldn't even beat the guy who got beat in 49 out of 50 states in 1984.

I can't believe how frustrated I am from answering this question and slowly realizing the sheer political malpractice of John Glenn's failed 1984 Presidential campaign.

#History #Politics #Presidential Elections #1984 Election #Ronald Reagan #President Reagan #John Glenn #Astronauts #NASA #Mercury Seven #Walter Mondale #1984 Democratic Presidential nomination #Presidential Candidates #1984 Democratic Presidential Candidates #John Glenn '84 #Political History #The Right Stuff

[freekicks]

do you think the mercury seven ever explored each other’s bodies

#nasa #mercury seven #the right stuff #john glenn

[jennrg]

(Credit to NASA)

#alan shepard #scott carpenter #john glenn #deke slayton #gordo cooper #gus grissom #wally schirra

[lonestarflight]

"Launch of Friendship 7, the first American manned orbital space flight. Astronaut John Glenn aboard, the Mercury-Atlas rocket is launched from Pad 14."

Date: February 20, 1962

NASA ID: S62-00363, S62-00337, KSC-62PC-0011

#Mercury-Atlas 6 #MA-6 #Friendship 7 #Mercury Spacecraft No. 13 #Mercury #Mercury Program #Project Mercury #NASA #Atlas #Atlas LV-3B #Atlas-109D #Rocket #LC-14 #Cape Canaveral #Kennedy Space Center #Florida #Launch #February #1962 #John Glenn #John Herschel Glenn Jr. #my post

[chasethatsweetserotonin]

#video #videos #edit #edits #glen powell #top gun maverick #hangman #jake seresin #set it up #charlie young #hidden figures #john glenn #devotion #tom hudner

[kennedy-family-library]

President Kennedy with Gherman Titov and John Glenn in the White House, May 3, 1962.

Source: JFK Library

#John F. Kennedy #JFK #President Kennedy #Gherman Titov #John Glenn

[gusgrissom]

The famous Mercury Seven photograph — and an alternate version, featuring NASA public affairs officer Shorty Powers taking his place as the “eighth astronaut,” 1961

#mercury seven #astronauts #NASA #1960s #* #scott carpenter #gordo cooper #gus grissom #john glenn #wally schirra #alan shepard #deke slayton #shorty powers

[aren42]

the galaxy, in his eyes

#glen powell #hidden figures #john glenn #green eyes

[soviet-space-ace]

Time magazine covers from the 1950’s and 1960’s looked like the artists were on drugs when they made them.

This is a real Timer magazine cover.

Why is John Glenn larger than the Earth?!

Khrushchev looks like a supervillain.

I don’t even know what these are supposed to be.

#time magazine #space race #john glenn #nikita khrushchev #1950s #1960s #magazine cover

[stone-cold-groove]

Astronaut John Glenn preparing to depart aboard Friendship 7 - 1963.

#nasa #john glenn #mercury mission #project mercury #space exploration #astronauts #space travel #friendship 7