Godspeed, John Glenn

[bartdereu]

Unbelievable how much courage those guys had , and still do

[rawyld]

God speed John Glenn

[GGE47]

@40390576 This guy uranorexexic followed me from a JFK video and I wish you would read his posts.I blocked him and he came over here,and I kept trying to get him to stop ruining this video,but he was a little child and just had to keep bragging about how he proved me wrong.He finally found a way on my channel,cussed me out and closed down his channel.Guess he coudn't stand being wrong.

[giannivee1]

@uranorexic I am with you Pit, it was an event that highlighted the best of science for America. And simple in its Greek like Heroics. Even Von Braun admited years later, that he thought it was almost suicide to settle on the Atlas as booster to put our man in orbit (up to that time it demonstrated many on pad explosions), yet we went bravely forward. I really think John Glenn should have gotten a congressional for sitting on that rocket that day..ha ha.

[Pitcairn2]

@uranorexic Listen you 9 year old fuckbrain, (1) I am not a she (2) I met Gagarin when he came to England in the 1960's. (3) I lived through the launch, of this , the sputniks before that , the failed vanguard launches ,and grew up in devastation caused by the ancestor of the Modern Rockets, the V2. Your pathetic immature blob of grey matter cannot see that in the scheme of things while it has great import in the future history of space travel it was a small episode.

[GGE47]

One other thing you got wrong,I am a he not a she.

[GGE47]

@uranorexic ROCKEFELLER,don't mentioned that name until you find out what whole bunch of scum is up to.

[GGE47]

@GGE47 It's a shame you ruined this video.I hope all posts regaurding this are removed.

[nasastronaut]

this men are jus HEROES, who would get on a rocket that knows it can explode in seconds :S, they are really heroes realy realy heroes!

[fenbogle]

SALUTE

[LUCKYBROOKS]

Would you be so kind as to clarify what is beind said BEFORE John Glenn is wished,

''God's Speed''  ... Thanks !

[newellgirl]

Godspeed John Glenn!

[toddsk1961]

john glen has the hugest balls in the history of man

[TheArbiter6695]

@toddsk1961 no-gagarin

[GGE47]

This was so exciting, America and most of the free world tuned in.I just wish we would have kept on going past landing men on the moon.We probably would have landed men on Mars by now.I just don't sense the same feeling of patriotism than I did back then.

[terraholdingco]

@GGE47 Great commentary... I agree 100%... we simply lost sight of these incredible operations. Went to watch the last Shuttle Discovery launch. First time seeing something like that. I guess it will be up to other countries to take the next amazing steps for humanity. America seems too prohibitive to continue into greatness like it used to. Perhaps, by some miracle, I'll be proved wrong. I sure hope so!

[GGE47]

I saw this rocket blast off in my high school auditoriem.It had just went into orbit when the bell rang for the next class.I was in the front row and just couldn't leave,skipping my English class.It didn't matter because the teacher didn't take the roll call.Nobody wanted to do much at all.I did attend the next class but all we did was listen over the intercom.Even 6th period band which was part of the cadet corpse.The captain,bandmaster and the commandante had to see Glenn return to Earth.

[gafasdelsol]

Today is the 49th anniversary of this special event.

[www41WorldUSAcom]

NASA: "Godspeed John Glenn"

[bondsee]

i jiggy jiggy dis

[ZX2ManDave]

Guys like John Glenn must have nuts the size of basketballs to have done what they did. I dont see how they were able to haul their packages up into space.

[HateClips]

John Glenn is the fucking man!

[pimmsdad]

100 Percent. All the way!

[lrviii]

570 videos! how long did that take you?

[0Akeldama0]

i just thought of something. Wouldn't it be easier and a little cheaper to get to space by taking off like a plane first then detaching and continuing to space?

[TheJomogogo]

@0Akeldama0

No. the fuel required is enormous.

[NelielTuOderswank]

@0Akeldama0 No because it takes the same amount of energy to get into space no matter how you decide to get there, each method has its own advantages though. For instance SpaceShipOne was launched from a plane called White Knight. Problem with the method is that the plane can only act as the first stage, because theres not enough air in the upper atmosphere to give the aircraft a low enough wing loading to tow a spacecraft to where it has to launch, A rocket on the other hand doesn't even flinch

[parisideon]

Ok enough of the bickering, can you believe that some nuts still believe the entire space program to be a hoax? I urge you all to comment on the Moon Landing Hoax - Wires Footage from DanielsNews. Jim Lovell right now is flying with Neil Armstronge and Gene Cern to the war zone. These are men in their late 70's and early 80's going to thank our fighting men and women the least we could do is show some support for them as American Hero's, no Earth Hero's.

[MissChelseaBoBo]

john glenn is my cousin. he is my 6th cousin. im not lying he really is .

[BarneyFlart]

You've got to hand it go guys like John Glenn. The last of the pioneers for sure.

Those rockets were, at best, unpredictable. There are countless ones that either blew up on the pad, lost direction and blew up,, or had to be blown up because they were off course.

He was a gutsy guy. Took the chance. For the glory I guess,, but was tough, pioneering guy.

[nenzi671]

Female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first female in space, orbited the earth 48 times in June 1963. She orbited the earth more times than all the Mercury astronauts combined. John Glenn was scheduled for 7 orbits, flew 3. She did 48. She was a 26 year old textile worker with no flight experience.

[Scientior]

@nenzi671

She didn't need any "flight experience" since the cosmonauts never actually piloted the Vostok spacecraft. She did need experience of parachuting, though. She spent the entire flight utterly incapacitated by motion sickness.

[292x1]

@nenzi671 No flight experience. Typical Russian Attitude. A disposable entity. But you forgot to add...America put guys on the moon and you NEVER did. Das v Danya Comrade

[panoz0]

He made a great achievement for the americans.

[MissChelseaBoBo]

im proud of my cousin

[Bigredgumball]

Yes! Awesome!

[Toyotomi]

Nice video, haven't seen a clip of John Glenn's launch into space since I was young. I used to have it on video cassette as part of Nasa's 25th anniversary.

[ZenPapageno]

Atlas had barely enough speed to put the man in orbit. If it didn't work quite right, he'd go down near Africa. When Scott Carpenter said, God speed, John Glenn it had a double meaning.

[everett403]

Atlas was more than powerful enough to put a mercury into orbit. And Atlas's are still being used today to launch satellites!

[ZenPapageno]

This is exactly what Scott Carpenter says in his memoirs, For Spacious Skies. I'm sure the Atlas of today is better than the one of 1962.

[TtownJim]

I believe the Redstone was originally an Army ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missle)

[Soxfan72295]

IT WAS AND THT IS AN AIRFORCE ICBM

[pimmsdad]

@TtownJim and progeny of the V-2

[QuarterPounder4]

So, what's the difference between the Atlas and Redstone rockets? I know they look different, but is the Atlas more powerful?

[positivecutie]

Yep, Atlas more powerful, QuarterPounder. Redstone didn't have enough oomph to make orbital velocity with a payload the size of a Mercury vehicle.

[artwleb]

Redstone couldn't fly to orbit even with no payload.......

[joshatkins94]

@QuarterPounder4 Atlas was basically a "stage-and-a-half" to orbit. Redstone was an ICBM, modified for Shepard and Grissom, to a suborbital trajectory.

[machbaby]

I agree Gagarin...but somehow I fear most Americans don't truly know the accomplishments either of these men made.

[northshore77x]

the answer......Yuri Gagarin......the first man in space.....

[Pitcairn2]

Gagarin and Glenns tiny episode in Mans journey into space, which will be remembered for ever.