March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... and Hart lobbied for the programme but were met with a dire lack of imagination, drawing astronaut John Glenn to comment: “The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order.” In the end...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... a few, to those in science and technology who helped advance our understanding of the Universe around us; Piers Sellers, John Glenn, Vera Rubins, Ann Caracristi and Deborah Jin, again, to name but a few…. The list it seemed was...
02 July 2021
Branson plans space trip ahead of rival Bezos
... make history again by being the oldest person yet to fly into space. The record is currently held by John Glenn, who was 77 when he flew on the STS-95 shuttle mission using the orbiter Discovery in 1998. Along with...
19 July 2021
Blue Origin ready for first crewed New Shepard launch 20 July
... or military pilots until the 1970s. She will be five years older than the previous title winner – John Glenn – who was 77 when he flew into space as part of the space shuttle mission STS-95 to study how microgravity...
26 February 2018
Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury & Gemini – A Rare Photographic History
... and emotion. Take just three of many such examples: as an alternative to the posed publicity shots it’s nice to see John Glenn in cleanroom gear seriously studying spacecraft manuals with Mercury capsules behind him; Jim Lovell’s cheeky grin...
