With scott pelley. Pelley john glenn, the last of the mercury 7 astronauts, the First American to orbit the earth, died late today. He was 95. Back in 1962, america was losing the space race. The soviets had already sent a man into orbit, and just six months after that, they detonated the Worlds Largest atom bomb. So the pressure and excitement were sky high that february day shining spacesuit, compressed himself into friendship 7. School children held their breath watching black and white tvs, Grand Central terminal stopped in its tracks, eyes glued to a big screen, and president kennedy waited to exhale at the white house. 3, 2, 1, 0, ignition. Pelley minutes later, feel fine. It would be his signature catch phrase for the rest of his life, a life of many orbits, remembered now by nancy cordes. Reporter from the cosmos to capitol hill and then back again godspeed, john glenn. Reporter john glenn was an astronaut, a politician, and a patriot i had i guess you could say 47 years of fed
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The house of commons. Topics include creating manufacturing jobs in the ongoing brexit negotiations. This is 40 minutes. Is part of the work we are doing. Order. Questions for the Prime Minister. Doctor philipa whitfield. The leader of the house. [shouting] my right honorable friend, the Prime Minister, the Gulf Corporation summit in bahrain. This morning i have meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and in addition to my duties in this house i have further meetings later today. Senator whitford. The memorandum of understanding, the right Space Institute brings the reality closer. With huge boost that could give to the uk Aerospace Industry will the uk Government Join the Scottish Government to literally get this off the ground. I can show the honorable lady the government is looking keenly at the opportunities to scotland and the whole of the United Kingdom rising from future development of commercial space operations, the projects she has described will be examined very clos
The house of commons. Topics include creating manufacturing jobs in the ongoing brexit negotiations. This is 40 minutes. Is part of the work we are doing. Order. Questions for the Prime Minister. Doctor philipa whitfield. The leader of the house. [shouting] my right honorable friend, the Prime Minister, the Gulf Corporation summit in bahrain. This morning i have meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and in addition to my duties in this house i have further meetings later today. Senator whitford. The memorandum of understanding, the right Space Institute brings the reality closer. With huge boost that could give to the uk Aerospace Industry will the uk Government Join the Scottish Government to literally get this off the ground. I can show the honorable lady the government is looking keenly at the opportunities to scotland and the whole of the United Kingdom rising from future development of commercial space operations, the projects she has described will be examined very clos
2027488901. Send us a tweet at cspan history or join us on facebook at facebook. Com cspanhistory. As we move outside to inside, one of the displays, and there are so many inside this fabulous museum, is moving beyond earth. And an example of the evolution of americas Space Shuttle program. And joining us again is valerie neal. We saw you just a moment ago in the tape portion. You are the curator, the chair of the Space History Department here at the museum. And lets talk about the shuttle program. No other country had Something Like that. Well, briefly, the soviet union did. They built a craft called buran that mimicked our Space Shuttle. But it was several years later. They flew one test flight and then retired it. They didnt really have a need for a shuttle craft. But they were very worried about what we might use ours for. And they thought they should have one too, just in case. But really, in the annals of space history, the u. S. Space shuttle is unique. Its the only operational