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Just back from outer space two years ago, Astronaut John Glenn said: "I have no political ambitions, none whatsoever." But before long, his Mercury colleagues noticed that he was devoting most of his time to being a public figure, suspected he might have the political bug. So it hardly came as a surprise last week when Glenn announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate from his home state of Ohio...
...describes the Virgin Mary's role in the Nativity. "And we killed the boy! Killed the boy! Who could have saved us all. He was one of them, Billy; I am absolutely convinced He was one of them." During a service at the new Church of Christ, Astronaut, which Brown attends along the way, the preacher exhorts his flock to behave better or else: "When we get there, to the Kingdom Come Motel, there will be banners reading NO EARTHMEN NEED APPLY...
Among the various business ventures of John Glenn, 42, and the six other original U.S. astronauts, none triggered so much flak as their two-year-old investment in the luxurious, 129-room Cape Colony Inn at Cape Kennedy. NASA superiors argue that the investment could be construed as unseemly capitalization on the space program. Not so, cries Astronaut Attorney Leo DeOrsey, 60, but "we felt that if it's distasteful to the boss, let's get out." So out they got, with each of the boys netting a tidy $6,000 profit on an initial $7,500 outlay...
...when volunteers finished a replica of the craft. This time they were right. The plane is destined to sit in the Wright Museum in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and so the engine has no pistons. It was built to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first powered flight, and Astronaut John Glenn, 42, was on hand to see how it all started. The space program, he said, is no different from the Wright flight. "The basic purpose is exploration or curiosity. I feel the whole program would be worthwhile even if there were no Russia. Otherwise it would be like saying...
...such promise, though, McNamara insists that the first step must be to find out whether humans can stay in top form in space and perform difficult duties better than nonhuman instruments. This is by no means sure. Said Albert C. Hall, DOD's space expert, "The astronaut will have to do more than throw a switch, which is about all they have done in Mercury." The partisans of such manned space stations must also prove that an alert enemy cannot destroy them with a small fraction of the effort that it took to put them in orbit. Says skeptical...