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Sens. Cates, Sawyer propose bill to honor John Glenn’s historic flight
Sens. Gary Cates, R-West Chester, and Tom Sawyer, D-Akron, on Thursday introduced bipartisan legislation to commemorate John Glenn’s historic space flight on Feb. 20, 1962 aboard Friendship 7.
Senate Bill 155 would commemorate next Feb. 20 as the 50th anniversary of the flight, which made Glenn the first American to orbit the earth. Every Feb. 20 after that would be “John Glenn Friendship 7 Day” in Ohio.
“He inspired an entire generation of Americans then, myself included,” Cates said in a press release.
“His accomplishments as one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts still serve as an inspiration to all Americans, his fellow Ohioans in particular.”
Glenn, 89, later went on to serve four terms in the U.S. Senate and returned to space for a second time in 1998.
Comments
By p***s enlargement
May 1, 2011 7:12 AM | Link to this
Just where do these trolling bloggers get this stuff?
By raja
April 29, 2011 4:58 AM | Link to this
Hope these birds cleared it with the NASA Czar first.
By Beck style Wingnut
April 28, 2011 6:28 PM | Link to this
Col Glenn was a hero: Sen Glenn was a jerk.
By sammie
April 28, 2011 2:36 PM | Link to this
maybe they can honor him for successfully avoiding paying off nearly 3 million in debt from his presidential campaign. wiped off the books in 2006 after nearly 20 years of avoiding paying..yep, what an honor