Columbus (Ohio) - In the fiftieth anniversary of the rotation around the Earth that has befallen on Monday to remember the first American John Glenn orbited the Earth that the trip the best day in his life.
Said Glenn (90 years) for the audience in Columbus that the trip was the result of "more than two years of training and working with a great team."
He said, "That's why the vehicle was named Friendship 7 for the team."
Trip and put Glenn leading the 20th of February in February 1962 the United States in a heated race in space with the Soviet Union at that time who had been sent cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit around the Earth before ten months.
Glenn said Democratic Senator in the Senate from Ohio in the period from 1974 to 1999 "This was the best day of my life."
And on the trip said Glenn, "It seems as if he had passed two weeks and not 50 years," adding that the day that passes since then, without asking for one space or flight "on Nader."
And marked the fiftieth anniversary with a series of celebrations and Glenn took the opportunity to criticize the reduction in funding the space program in the country.
Glenn returned to space in 1998 at the age of 77 years on board the space shuttle Discovery to conduct experiments on aging sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
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