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Astronaut John Glenn of New Concord Ohio

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Lieutenant Colonel United States Marine

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Corps

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married father of two teenage children

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Glenn has been a pilot over half of his

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40 years has flown in two wars and the

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veteran test pilot who five years

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earlier established a transcontinental

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point record as the first man to average

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supersonic speeds across America

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volunteered for spaceflight is one of

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seven astronauts selected for Project

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Mercury the manned space program

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directed by the National Aeronautics and

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Space Administration

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the pioneer the way into space for Glenn

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astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil

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Grissom tested the Mercury spacecraft on

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trailblazing suborbital missions

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proving the equipment and pushing the program

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to the threshold of orbital flights

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it's winter pretty presentation now to

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Glen Falls the challenge of man's next

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advance into space. He has been chosen

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to cross the threshold  gained by Shepard

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and Grissom and to orbit the work

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all the countdown continues for John

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Glenn and it continues beyond this room

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for Friendship 7 and it continues this

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moment around the world

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what are the thoughts of a man about to

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rocket into history is the astronaut the

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man who will challenge space but he is

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just one member of an international

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scientific endeavor that requires the

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genius and skills of some 40,000 other

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men and women scattered throughout the

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world on the engineers and technicians

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who produced the space vehicle to the

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cruise now preparing to launch it from

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the tracking experts who will charge his

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boys around the globe to the sailors not

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waiting at sea to recover him behind his

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day stands years of preparation of

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research and testing planning and

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training Department of it all

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knowledge of space how effectively

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manned spacecraft can function together

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and it's hostile environment knowledge

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that will serve as the basis for space

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explorations of the future hard-won

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knowledge of benefit to all men by

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sacrifice and dedication

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ok

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just a handful of minutes remain

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ok

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the countdown is their master plan and

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they proceeded through its ritual with

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one hurry deliberation its pages contain

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the timetable of order they must hollow

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to a week in a giant machine to test its

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readiness to private for the one supreme

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moment for which it was created and I

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salon now Peter e-banking both trouble

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stand down now meter reads 11.56

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all mercury stations reported go special

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equipment has been installed here at the

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front sight for them to tell their story

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to the world of their own newspapers and

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for the radio station from Latin America

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because our on start interrogation in

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one minute ride all the way you've got a

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plan

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started

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that much more rapidly as a game speed

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without dude after two minutes booster

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engine cutoff occurred his program and

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the booster section with jettison the

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escape tower now I needed was also

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jettison five minutes after launch the

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space vehicle at an altitude of 100

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files seco sustainer engine car

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launch vehicle and deposit great rockets

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fired

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at the end of the first orbit across

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your malfunction committed only partial

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use of the automatic stabilization and

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control system after not blend took over

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and control the spacecraft manually the

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second orbit over Russia Australia

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ground telemetry signal indicated that

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the heat shield might be loosed a

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decision was made by mercury control

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program reentry with the retrorocket

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package in place and astronaut Glenn was

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instructed to manually override the

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automatic jettison mechanism for 45

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minutes from now

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manual you understand

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very good

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i cannot lend his spacecraft friendship

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7 landed well within the plan recovery

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area all mission objectives have been

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achieved including a realization of the

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primary goal of the victory program to

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put a man in orbit around the Earth and

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recover him safely but the me6 flight

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had done even more if it demonstrated

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conclusively that man was a necessary

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requirement for spaceflight to implement

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decisions beyond ground control limits

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to supplement automated systems with his

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reason and technical skill the scope of

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manned space flight had been enlarged

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John

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other brave men will follow tomorrow and

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in the tomorrow's after that each step

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more Bowl we reach out to explore the

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universe breaking down here

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today I know that I seem to be standing

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alone on this great platform just as I

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seem to be alone in the cockpit of the

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friendship 7 spacecraft but I'm not

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there with me then and with me now

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thousands of Americans and many hundreds

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of citizens of many countries around the

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world who contributed to this truly

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international undertaking voluntarily

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and in a spirit of cooperation and

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understanding on behalf of all those

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people I would like to express my and

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their heartfelt thanks for the honors

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you have bestowed upon us here today we

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are all proud to have been privileged to

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be part of this effort to represent our

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country as we have as our knowledge of

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this universe in which we live increases