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America put more money into research, into the new and the unknown than any nation in history, and the same thing with education, and those two things led us into a worldwide preeminence in a very short period of time.
John Glenn
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John Glenn
Age: 95 †
Born: 1921
Born: July 18
Died: 2016
Died: December 8
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John Herschel Glenn Jr.
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I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.
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I hate to think that we may be out there seven to ten years out and dependent on the Russians for our journey into space.
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Because now, you know, it's going to be a number of years yet before we have our own new boosters and new spacecraft to go to our own International Space Station and proceed with all the research that we spent $100 billion putting up there to give us that research capability for the future for people right here on Earth.
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