John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (1921-2016)

[Kosmos]

W tym roku (w lipcu) 90 urodziny będzie obchodzić John Glenn (weteran MA-6 i STS-95). To chyba będzie pierwszy astronauta 90-latek ?

[ekoplaneta]

Ktoś wybiera się na urodziny? 

[kanarkusmaximus]

Mam nadzieję, że będzie jakieś media coverage z tego wydarzenia.

[Orionid]

18 lipca 2016 John Glenn obchodził  95. urodziny

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/07/18/twitter-lights-up-with-95th-birthday-wishes-for-john-glenn.html
http://time.com/4408586/john-glenn-95-birthday/
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astronaut-john-glenn-during-mercury-atlas-6-pre-launch-activities

[Orionid]

28 czerwca 2016  lotnisko Columbus w Ohio zostało oficjalnie  przemianowane na John Glenn Columbus International Airport.

The legendary aviator and astronaut, 94, was celebrated at a ceremony on Tuesday marking the renaming of Port Columbus to John Glenn Columbus International Airport. The state bill changing the name was signed by Gov. John Kasich two weeks ago, and officially takes effect in September.

In addition to his world-famous career in aviation and aerospace, Glenn has had a relationship to the Columbus airport that is probably second to no one. Glenn, who turned 8 the month that Port Columbus opened in July 1929, recalled asking his parents to stop at the airport so he could watch the planes come and go when he was growing up in New Concord, 70 miles east of Columbus.

Glenn recalled "many teary departures and reunions" at the airport's original terminal on Fifth Avenue during his time as a military aviator during World War II. He and his wife Annie, who have been married 73 years, later kept a small Beechcraft plane at Lane Aviation on the airport grounds for many years, and he only gave up flying his own plane at age 90.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2016/06/28/0628-john-glenn-honored-at-airport-renaming-ceremony.html

[JSz]

Przy okazji: czy nie warto zmienić nazwy wątku?
Np. na "John Glenn (ur. 1921)"?

[kanarkusmaximus]

Dobra myśl! Zmieniłem!

[Orionid]

USNS John Glenn
 
Uroczystość  zmiany nazwy statku odbyła się 1 lutego 2014 z udziałem astronauty.

USNS John Glenn (T-ESD-2), (formerly MLP-2) is a United States Navy Expeditionary Transfer Dock ship named in honor of John Glenn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_John_Glenn#cite_note-USNI09042015-2
http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/88/8802.htm

https://www.amo-union.org/news/2016/201608/201608.pdf
http://www.space.com/24537-astronaut-john-glenn-navy-ship.html
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/mobile-landing-platform-mlp-ship/


Sunday February 2, 2014 12:34 PM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The military yesterday christened a Navy logistics ship in honor of John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth.

The former Ohio senator attended the ceremony in San Diego at General Dynamics’ National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., along with his wife and daughter.

The 785-foot USNS John Glenn is a Mobile Landing Platform ship — a new type of amphibious staging and assault vessel. It’s the second one ordered by the Navy to quickly transport troops and supplies to shore. (...)

Lyn Glenn, the daughter of John Glenn, smashes a bottle of sparkling wine on the side of the new USNS John Glenn during its christening ceremony. It’s the second Mobile Landing Platform ship.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2014/02/02/navy-names-ship-in-honor-of-astronaut-john-glenn.html

[JoachimK]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-senator-famed-astronaut-john-glenn-hospitalized-article-1.2902208?cid=bitly

[Orionid]

John Glenn, a war hero who became the first American to orbit the Earth and later served four terms in the U.S. Senate, has been hospitalized in his home state of Ohio with an unexplained condition, a source close to his family confirmed to NBC News.

The 95-year-old former Marine suffered a stroke two years ago after having heart valve replacement surgery, but it was not clear what caused him to be taken to the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State.

Glenn was admitted to the hospital more than a week ago, a spokesman for the John Glenn College of Public Affairs said in a statement. The spokesman said he did not know Glenn's "condition or illness or prognosis" and cautioned that Glenn did not necessarily have cancer.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/john-glenn-hero-astronaut-former-senator-hospitalized-n693296
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/07/john-glenn-former-senator-astronaut-hospitalized-ohio/95104816/

[kanarkusmaximus]

Mam nadzieje, że to nic poważnego i John Glenn jeszcze będzie brany pod uwagę jako członek załogi przyszłych misji!

[astropl]

John Glenn dzisiaj zmarł...

[JSz]

Strona z obszernymi materiałami dotyczącymi Glenna: http://www.dispatch.com/content/topic/news/2015/john-glenn.html. Był już ostatni z pierwszej siódemki.

Szkoda, że nie doczekał New Glenna...

[mss]

Parę linków z informacjami na JEGO temat:

1) http://glenn.osu.edu/about/john-glenn/

2) http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/john-glenn-dead/

3) http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1356,title,John-Glenn-nie-zyje,wid,18627642,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=1183a7

4) http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/last-true-national-hero-john-glenn-dead-95-n693391

5) http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/08/former-astronaut-and-us-senator-john-glenn-dies-at-95.html

6) http://www.nasa.gov/johnglenn

[ekoplaneta]

John Glenn dzisiaj zmarł...

Wieczne odpoczywanie rać mu dać Panie a światłość wiekuista niechaj mu świeci. Niech odpoczywa w pokoju!

John Glenn miał ciekawe życie na Ziemi. Miejmy nadzieje, że jego wieczność będzie jeszcze ciekawsza i wspanialsza!

P.S. Czy to prawda, że John Glenn był ostatnim żyjącym astronautą z pierwszej Siódemki?