Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NASA can determine that Senator Glenn is fit for space flight at age 77, why does the Federal Aviation Administration require commercial pilots to stop flying at 60? If NASA thinks a 77-year-old Glenn is good enough for it, you can bet I'd want to have him in the pilot's seat of the airliner I'm riding in. CARL ZIEGLER Hugo, Minn...
...could be that significant medical and scientific accomplishments will result from Glenn's journey. But no matter. A needed uplift to the American spirit will surely result. GERALD BAZER Toledo, Ohio...
Shortly after Glenn's historic flight in the Mercury capsule Friendship 7, his tiny spacecraft was sent on a world exhibition tour. Ghana was the first stop in Africa. I was there, and in three hot June days of 1962, 75,000 Africans were wowed by the most unusual thing they had ever seen and touched. After Glenn's flight this fall, the U.S. government should take another initiative: send this American hero on a world tour to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. A personal tour by Glenn would spotlight an unpretentious American of character, courage...
...Glenn's flight is a public relations gimmick. Nothing will be learned about the effects of space on aging. C. RALPH VERNO West Chester...
Roger Rosenblatt said of Glenn's upcoming shuttle flight, "The public does not require a usefulness beyond its own admiring pleasure." Actually, yes, we do. The estimable Glenn is having his dream fulfilled at taxpayer expense, a privilege denied the rest of us. The pursuit of happiness does not carry with it the requirement of government funding. Don't insult our intelligence by pretending Glenn's voyage into space is good science instead of a mere joyride. GARY ABBOTT Atlanta...