To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
John GlennAs I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
John GlennWe thought that the odds of things working OK were up in the upper 90 percent or we wouldn't have gone. But the - there were some problems cropped up on the flight but was able to take care of those OK and - although they were things that we hadn't really trained that much for. But it was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology.
John Glenn