On this day in history in 1962 John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. Later John became a U.S. senator representing Ohio. And later he became the oldest person to go into space…. Which I think he still holds that record.
The first nation to have a man-made satellite to orbit around the Earth (in 1957) was Russian with their little basketball looking thing they called Sputnik.
Well, ♫La Te Da♪.
3 comments:
Graduated from the Naval Academy in '58. Remember all of that. It did give us a lot of benefits. Maybe not our money's worth.
But in a series of lost wars, we did win the Cold War!
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That is like saying "we were more snooty."
We did something we could not do today. We had a more stable and productive economy that they could not keep up with. Including the Space Race.
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