There Had Been A Number Of Failures But We Weren't Going Out To Ride A Failure. And We Felt They'd Corrected All The Difficulties With The Boosters Before That Time And The Launch Problems. And So We Had A Lot Of Confidence That There Was Going To Be A Successful Mission. We Weren't Off On Some Suicide Effort, Certainly.

-John Glenn

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There Had Been A Number Of Failures

John Glenn

There Had Been A Number Of Failures But We Weren't Going Out To Ride A Failure. And We Felt They'd Corrected All The Difficulties With The Boosters Before That Time And The Launch Problems. And So We Had A Lot Of Confidence That There Was Going To Be A Successful Mission. We Weren't Off On Some Suicide Effort, Certainly.

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We Had An Airplane, A Beechcraft Baron, That We - I Had Since 1981. And Annie [glenn] And I Both Of Had To Have Knee Replacements Unfortunately Over The Past Year, And It Made It More Difficult To Climb Up On The Airplane. We Weren't Using It That Much So We Did - It Hurt A Lot But I Finally Sold The Airplane.

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