A biography for John Glennhasn’t been written yet.
“Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.”
“I didn't see Saddam Hussein as being quite the danger that some other people did.”
“I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.”
“I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.”
“The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.”
“The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.”
“As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.”
“Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.”
“If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.”
“You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.”
“I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.”
“Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.”