Crazy for me to even think about... I was born in 1962, while John Glenn was orbiting the earth. My first name is Glenn, at least in part named after John Glenn. But anyway, I have fond memories of watching many rocket launches on TV and such. It was such a big deal back then, it almost seemed like one way or another, every time a rocket was launched back then, people ( especially school kids ) would have eyes glued to the TV watching. It still seems so amazing to me that a object that big can take off like that...
Years later, they opened a Space Center museum in my home town , Jackson Michigan, was the first time I saw one of those capsules up close... wow those things were/are tiny...
Anyway, thinking back over my 57 years on earth, it still amazes me the things they have done to get in space and return safely ( the vast majority of times). Yes, there have been some tragedies over the years too. But wow, thinking back to that first Moon Mission, is crazy, so many memories of stuff that's happened since then, and how incredible it is that they were able to do that back then, when technology in general was just a very small fraction of what it is today.
