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BREAKING NEWS: Former astronaut, US Senator John Glenn dies at 95
BREAKING NEWS: Former astronaut, US Senator John Glenn dies at 95
John Glenn, the all-American astronaut and senator who rocketed into history on flights 36 years apart as the first American to orbit the Earth and the oldest person in space, died Thursday at age 95."We are saddened by the loss of Sen. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. A true American hero. Godspeed, John Glenn," NASA tweeted immediately after his death was anounced.
Glenn died at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where he was hospitalized for more than a week.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Former astronaut, US Senator John Glenn dies at 95
High FlightOh!
I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air… .Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.— John Gillespie Magee, Jr
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Former astronaut, US Senator John Glenn dies at 95
The final orbit !
R.I.P.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Former astronaut, US Senator John Glenn dies at 95
Sad news.
He truly had the right stuff!
RIP
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Former astronaut, US Senator John Glenn dies at 95
Breaking news?
Has something changed in the last 8 days, or are you just tryng to bury threads?
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.