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...Senator John Glenn...
...John Glenn, of course, will head into space again this year on a shuttle at the age of 77--an admirable feat for a geezer but no longer the irreplaceable original. In those days, rockets named for the god Apollo went up from Cape Kennedy like chariots of fire and carried a cargo of such elemental significance and mystery that even Norman Mailer was awed and knocked off his ego for an hour or two. Mailer wrote that Cape Kennedy was "the antechamber of the new creation...
...carrying a gun: I would rather be tried by 12 jurors than carried out by six pallbearers. Don't give me victims' rights; give me self-defense rights. GLENN P. ALLEN Sacramento, Calif...
...biggest Jose Jimenez fan you ever saw? Alan Shepard, (not to be confused with Sam Shepard, who plays a great Yeager in this one) and you're looking at him. Scott Glenn does the old pioneer justice in all his guts, grace and flinty humor. From his lips we get one of space's first slogans -- "everything is AOK" -- and some lesser-known launchpad gems, namely "Dear Lord, please don't let me f--- this...
...standard of the original seven flies yet -- John Glenn, squeaky-clean and super-heroic to this day (and years older than Shepard) will go up again in this age, when space flights leave like crosstown buses, and that will be fun. But you always remember your first time, right? That was Shepard's, and always will...