John Glenn

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

— John Glenn

Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

— John Glenn

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

— John Glenn

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

— John Glenn

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

— John Glenn

To me, there is no greater calling … If I can inspire young people to dedicate themselves to the good of mankind, I've accomplished something.

— John Glenn

I pray every day and I think everybody should. I don't think you can be up here and look out the window as I did the first day and look out at the Earth from this vantage point. We're not so high compared to people who went to the moon and back. But to look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is, to me, impossible. It just strengthens my faith.

— John Glenn

Could this have just happened? . . . I can’t believe that ... Some Power put all this into orbit and keeps it there.

— John Glenn

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.

— John Glenn

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

— John Glenn