John Glenn's Wavering Orbit; The Senat Veteran Gets Rocked by a Hard-Hitting Challenger

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 22, 1992| Author: | Copyright information

Looking back, you could argue that it was one of our last great moments of national optimism: before the bullets in Dallas and the wars and riots of the 1960s began unraveling everything.

When John Glenn splashed down safely from orbit in his Friendship 7 space capsule 30 years ago last February, it was hard not to believe - really believe - that in America we could accomplish anything.

The torch had been passed to a new generation, legions of galvanized young Americans were flocking to ask, not what their country could do for them, but what they could do for their country (and the ...

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