February 20, 1962: God Speed John Glenn
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Obama has killed our manned space program, just as he has tried to kill commercial nuclear power with the appointment of anti-nuclear Gregory Jackzo as Chairman of the US NRC.
I note the irony that John Glenn was / is Democrat.
:\”…I note the irony that John Glenn was / is Democrat.” and a die hard proabort!
Neither of those factors, both of which I am well aware of, having anything to due with the historical importance of the event noted in the post.
October Sky, a film about The Rocket Boys. Homer Hickam of Coalwood, West Virginia developed jet propulsion and taught astronauts for many decades.
October Sky is when the Russian Sputnik circled earth which inspired Kennedy to put a man on the moon.
October Sky is free on Youtube.
Apollo 13 is also a good watch. James Lovell is a Catholic.
BTW My grandson, Austin is a NASA engineer. He married a NASA Engineer. The family has two very young astronauts.