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Monday, February 20, 2012

John Glenn, Mercury Team Reunite For Launch’s 50th Anniversary

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA’s Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight.

The first American to orbit the Earth thanked the approximately 125 retired Mercury workers, now in their 70s and 80s, who gathered with their spouses at the Kennedy Space Center to swap stories, pose for pictures and take a bow.

“There are a lot more bald heads and gray heads in that group than others, but those are the people who did lay the foundation,” the 90-year-old Mr. Glenn said at an evening ceremony attended by NASA officials, politicians, astronauts and hundreds of others.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a shame that these fine gentlemen have nothing but a bunch of dark, closed buildings to hold their anniversary in. Our president, in his imagined wisdom, has shuttered this icon of American achievement,

Anonymous said...

10:17,

Consider this: During a Democratic rally in Ohio on 30 Aug 2008, John Glenn publicly endorsed the Obama-Biden ticket. Your "fine gentleman" got exactly what he asked for. Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap!