John Glenn

I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.

One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.

I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.

When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

In the old days, the Soviets were using space as a selling point for communism.

The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

As far as entertainment, 'The Right Stuff' is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.