December 09, 2016
Sic Itur Ad Astra
War hero, test pilot, senator and the first American to orbit the Earth; John Glenn has passed away at 95.
95 is a ripe old age and he certainly lived a full life. It is terrible, however, to loose such a storied and august individual.
What is, in some ways, more terrible still, is that, so many years after his pioneering flight, he did not have the option of an off-planet hospice. With Senator Glenn, the last of the Mercury astronauts has passed, and we are rapidly approaching a point where no living person will have walked on the moon; a rather retrograde development.
The total number of people off planet now is six.
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