John Glenn (1921-2016)

[backontrack]

Former US senator John Glenn has passed away aged 95. He was the first US man to fully orbit the Earth.

Former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, has died aged 95.
The former Marine and US Senator is best known for circling the earth in 1962 aboard a space capsule dubbed Friendship 7.
Glenn had been in hospital in Columbus, Ohio, for more than a week and died surrounded by his children and wife of 73 years.
He is expected to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38257445

 

[me123]

A truly inspirational man. He travelled in the space shuttle in his late seventies becoming the oldest person to travel to space. In his US political career, he was a strong advocate for science. A great loss indeed.

 

[adrock1976]

Thinking about it, John Glenn was mentioned in Billy Joel's 1989 song "We Didn't Start the Fire".

Of all the people that are namechecked in that song, I think that there are not many alive today when Joel wrote the song.

I can only think of Doris Day, Elizabeth Windsor (or Saxe-Coburg Gotha), and Bernie Goetz. Sally Ride passed away 2 or 3 years ago, and Fidel Castro a couple of weeks ago.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Thinking about it, John Glenn was mentioned in Billy Joel's 1989 song "We Didn't Start the Fire".

Of all the people that are namechecked in that song, I think that there are not many alive today when Joel wrote the song.

I can only think of Doris Day, Elizabeth Windsor (or Saxe-Coburg Gotha), and Bernie Goetz. Sally Ride passed away 2 or 3 years ago, and Fidel Castro a couple of weeks ago.

As far as I can see, there are six people still alive: Doris Day, Queen Elizabeth II, Bridget Bardot, Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan and Bernie Goetz.