Calls and reflections on the life and legacy of senator, astronaut john glenn. You can share your comments on our twitter page or join us on facebook. Ood friday morning to you the senate is in session trying to wrap up a cr to keep the government and operation through the end of april. The house did its part with a debate over how scared and if over how health care an American Hero, a combat pilot fighter who made history by rocketing into the future as the pioneer of space travel. The story this morning from his hometown newspaper in columbus, ohio. We will have more from the Columbus Dispatch. You can log on to the website including the life and career of john glenn. Services will take place in ohio and he will be interred at Arlington National cemetery. Remembering the life of john glenn. Here from universal news, which is called a space triumph back in 1952. Which was called a space triumph back in 1952. Five hours before he is to make a strident into history, his smiley face belies the weather over Cape Canaveral is better and there is an air of optimism as the kernel walks to the elevator during his familiar portable air conditioner. He prepares to go to the 11th act as clocks point to 6 00 a. M. Eastern standard time. The skies are beginning to lighten and a cool north wind rustles across the cape. The kernels date with destiny comes 10 months after flight russians claim a and after year after alan shepard glazed a trail for the u. S. This is the climax of three years of training. The eyes of the world turn to Cape Canaveral. Theted states whitehot glare of public debate. In the capsule, he will be strapped to a contoured couch. The mercury will be tilted so the astronaut will ride backwards. Approaches. Us with he has cover causes a slight delay when a defective bolt is discovered. Then millions are moved to silent prayer. Host if you are old enough to remember, you remember the Historic Mission of the john glenn, the first to orbit the earth. A piece inside the Washington Post he concludes with these famous words. Add that to maxim this comment from bilking. From bill king. He says the following looking at the life and legacy of john glenn. We want to hear from you. We go to paul in wisconsin. Caller good morning. I have to say, god bless john glenn and his family. Wasnt he the first person to orbit the earth . Host he was, indeed. Caller he was a fantastic, brave american. That the end it all of the nasa programs and maybe donald trump will bring it back. Was a brave hero. He was a brave hero in my book. That hethat he is passed away. Everybody gets old. He was pretty old. God bless him and his family. Much. Paul, thank you very become the Columbus Dispatch posting a lot of interviews. John glenn reflecting on what it was like to see what we have here on earth and from a very unique Vantage Point in space. Here on earth when you look at a sunset, you see those colors so vividly and they are very impressive. You dont see the whole spectrum , you see the reds, oranges and yellows. Up there for a little while, just doing that few seconds, you see all of the spectrum right across the whole spectrum, all the different colors have the luminosity that you can only see on earth. You sound like a poet, not a pilot. Host the full interview available on the Columbus Dispatch site. Another comment from my bloomberg makes this point. John glenn the First American to orbit the earth that can 1962. John f. Kennedy called him an American Hero. Mike, welcome to the conversation. Caller thanks for having me. I grew up. I was born in 1956. The Space Program was a woven part of our childhood, so the mercury probe not quite old enough to remember sputnik but old enough to remember the early days of mercury and gemini and apollo. All of the launches were watched in our school. I went is cap i went to Catholic School plus i am also from ohio. The affinity with john glenn there. The one comment about patriotism. This was a source of National Pride. Yes, you can overlay that with a little bit of cynicism about competing with the russians or the soviets. That was always there. It was an incredible source of National Pride to watch these guys crawl into these capsules and do all of this over that whole decade. All of this was going on behind the scenes of what was also on the front pages at that time, civil rights, vietnam, woodstock, the section drugs thing. What stood the test of time in what really defined the 60s were these guys who went to work every day with their short sleeve starts short sleeve shirts and they put us on the moon. It really was phenomenal. It would be nice if we could do Something Like that again today with mars. I dont get all theory with a lot of these people all theory with a lot of these people. Host david says, it might be time to reread the right stuff. The headline from the west and post. From the Washington Post. In the Columbus Dispatch after his historical mission, john glenn telling an audience how much he longed to return to space right away only to learn years after leaving the Space Program that president john f. Kennedy fearing the worst sequel he had barred him from other flights to spare the country of a potential loss of a national hero. He admitted he was jealous when a fellow ohio when became the first to set foot on the moon. He ran for the senate in 1970 losing to Howard Metzenbaum and came back four years later easily winning the election serving a total of 24 years. He was on the senate floor during one of the iconic moments for this network, when cspan2 was launched in the senate. Heres john glenn on the floor of the senate during the early days of cameras inside the senate. Mr. President , the first day of television in the United States senate. I voted for that because i think the people of this country do have a right to know. Mr. President , this includes a lot of things that the people of the country deserve to have a right to know about the united , but i do have some reservations as to whether this will change the way the senate operates. In recent weeks, we have had a lot of device in the senate. We have had Committee Meetings about what the camera angles will be and how to best keep your head up and look at those cameras. We have had meetings about how to hold it might so you dont make some noise like that, rubbing against my clothing. We should not even hold the mic because it is liable to make a noise. Those of us with thinning hair lines or little hair on the head have been advised you do not lean over like this into the camera. [laughter] that will give a poor impression. Mr. President , i will not say that tv in the senate is want to change anything, but i wish to note we have had advice on how to do this and how to make certain we cut that shine on the head. If necessary, how to do the eyeshadow and the whole thing so that those of us unfortunate enough to have the bags under the eyes may look a little bit better. Mr. President , personally, i plan to do nothing different. After we have that done, we may to perhaps be certain that everything is done properly for the camera here. We have even had advice that we do not do as i did today and come in with a plain old white shirt and a summertime. Heaven for bid. I dont know whether my colleagues feel this would be a better decorum for the senate. Senatorenate Stafford Nottingham no but perhaps the people of ohio would be glad to make a judgment on what basis what they want to see me attired in in the senate. President , these are just a few of our concerns here that i am sure none of us will do anything differently in the senate of the United States now that we are on television. 1986. June 2, the Senate Chamber where he served for 24 years. The flag at half staff to pay tribute to john glenn who represented ohio from 1974 and was reelected on three occasions. Todays front page of the Washington Post. We go to john in oregon. Looking at the life and legacy of the former senator. Good morning. Caller i want to thank you so much for opening your program with this. A sad day. We all have to do this once we are born. This today is inevitable. Livedo grateful to have during this time. Throughout his entire career from his first flight to today. He is so a compost. He is so accomplished. It is sad to see the last one of the last remaining true heroes along with Neil Armstrong and a handful of others that are so sadly unrecognized throughout their lifetime. Yet it takes a day like today to truly understand just how great these people are, and a time where we as a People Choose to celebrate the buffoonish, the trulysh and ignore the. Umble and inspiring , wepeople we should emulate just cast aside until days like today. Do wish annie the best i want to thank her for sharing her husband with us through these years. Again, so grateful to have lived and watched this man accomplish all the things he did. Thank you, cspan, for this opportunity. Host married 73 years. The boston post the Washington Post let me go to jody. Senator glenn making fun at his own expense what it was like to have cameras. Now a part of standard procedures. It back in 1986, it was a brandnew concept to have cameras in the senate. There were cameras in the house back in 1979. Ray, welcome to the program. Caller thank you for taking my call. My thoughts are with the glenn family today. I would like to say how we either people throughout the easily. Ro all too john kline john glenn and the other original astronaut, true American Heroes. Get choked upy but he was a childhood hero of mine. , theseith Neil Armstrong are original astronauts. It is one thing to send a rover to mars and watch it and think great engineering. That was something. Country. United the we just dont have that anymore. People like john glenn, Truly American hero. Host some of the photographs from inside the post including john f. Kennedy back in 1962 looking at the mercury capsule. It is now on display here in washington, dc, at the air and space museum. Other photographs including his own bid for the presidency back in 1984. We go to jack from sherman, texas. Caller thank you for having me. I wanted to make a comment that i had a brush with something that was very unusual. I was a detective on the Sherman Police department that day when he made his third time around the globe. I pulled over to the curve and picked up a sack off the floor board and wrote a poem. Titled, john glenn. I sent a copy to nasa and to the president of the United States. I never thought i would hear from them. I got a letter from shorty powers who was in charge of the National Group the nasa crew and president kennedy. It was in our local paper. Connect felt a special with john glenn. He has always been my personal hero. Host you remember what the poem said . Got a pretty i good memory. It starts out, on february 20 on the year of 1962, a rocket left canaveral and bolted toward the blue. Inside a tiny capsule, and astronaut delay hoping against all feeling that this might be his day. The rest of it i cannot remember in wrote. I would have to be reading it. I just quoted to jog my memory. Host that is pretty good. I want to ask someone else earlier for those of us not old enough to remember that moment, everything that we had been reading basically said the country halted. Everyone was looking at cbs and nbc and watching the coverage of this moment. Caller you know why . There was something that had not been discussed. I have been waiting for someone. O Say Something there was nothing said about the fact that his heatshield was coming loose. That was the reason they stopped it with three orbits. On for thehim going whole day. Then he said the chance of burning up on his reentry. That is another thing that made him a special human being. He certainly put his life on the line when that heatshield went bad. Hope he has already got his wings from the man upstairs. He deserves to be there. Host jack, thanks for your call. Thank you for sharing your verse for more than 50 years ago. John glenn on board the Space Shuttle in the late 1990s. This is a story this morning, front page of the wall street journal. From go to Dorothy Jonas pine bluff, arkansas. Good morning. Caller thank you. I was very fortunate to have taught school and retired in 1970s. Ti in the early i had a chance to see john glenn speak in columbus. I just valued his character and his outlook on life. What he stood for. I thought he was a very good hero for all young people growing up at that time. I am really proud that we have someone that we can celebrate with character, because our country is seriously suffering now with character problems and i hope we can improve and bring back some of this kind of legacy. Host thanks for the call. This is from another viewer. Ron is joining us from california. Caller good morning. Nice to see you and thanks for take the call it a listen, i was blessed enough to be born at a time when the sputnik was a big deal. I was blessed that i work for north american aviation in 1962. I was there at the tate at the same time john glenn was taking off. This was a very ideal. I wanted up i wanted up lucky enough to be stationed at kennedy. Having said that, i was there onn everybody got burned up cap 34. It was a scary time. Am. As at the end of the john glenn was a tough old marine. He did everything that you had to do to be a true American Hero from the start. I was blessed enough to work at and 1967. N 1966 these guys when they do the movie, the right stuff, go if youf, call watch apollo 13 for example, you saw how the people who were behind the scenes that backed up. Ohn glenn it was a combined effort of real people doing real stuff. In apollo 13, the guys there while the ground were better than what they showed in the movie. We these guys did the most honorable thing in the whole world to be around the whole Space Program at that time. John glenn, rest in peace. He will be an icon for all time. It is an honor to have had been around that program and known as people. Host thanks for the call. From that cspan video library, theres a lot on john glenn, including a speech he gave. We should earlier. You can check it out. Just type in john glenn. Another tweet from another viewer. More with john glenn in a moment. A note about the senate which is in session today. Live coverage on cspan2. Lawmakers try to head out of town need to work out a resolution a spending package that will keep the government in operation through april. 1. 07 trillionbe budget cap. Toward water if the structure. Also a provision that would allow retired general mad dog madison to become the defense secretary. Whichrrent funding expires at midnight, they could pass a shortterm measure that could allow the senate to finish up business tomorrow. The house passed its own cr resolution. That took place yesterday. Dave from arizona. Good morning. Atler a sad day, but i work Mcdonnell Douglas in st. Louis where they built the capsules. Or the geminimercury programs it is interesting to see that on tv. They have been bought out by boeing. It has been a sad day. I grew up in the 1960s and remember this. That is it. Host thank you for the call. Caller may he rest in peace. Host i did not mean to cut you off. Caller i was an engineer at aerospace for 10 years, so anyway saturday. May he rest in peace. Host let me go back to the New York Times story. A sense of what this country was going through, what was happening. Back to your calls. Lance is joining us from new york. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you doing . , do respect and honor to his family. Listen, i was watching yesterday on cspan. So much stations out there, you dont know what to watch. I knew john glenn passed away. He was my favorite. I was watching when he was in the national museum, and he brought something to my attention. In 1957, i was seven years old and he was talking about sputnik. That. I remember i didnt know what it was. I thought it was a new song on the radio. My parents explained it. As i was listening to this democracy man. He was like a donald trump talking about democracy and how to be somebody, and you cannot forget the constitution. There was so much he talked about. Wife, his beautiful annie. Years. Hey married 73 she is in her 90s. This in the west and post. In the Washington Post. She was at his bedside when he passed away yesterday at the age of 95. There will be services and columbus, ohio. His internment at the Arlington National cemetery. Back in 1998, as he wrapped up for terms in the u. S. Senate, he went back home to columbus, ohio. In the cspan video library, this moment. On occasion ive gone over to the National Archives building with different groups. You walk up and do some of those documents on display, the declaration of independence, the revere them and we so much, we honor those piece of paper so much that they are put behind all approved glass, they are put into a special glass environment gas environment that prevents them from deteriorating. They put them down in a vault at night. It slides down on an automatic machine. They bring it up in the morning. He goes down into a vault. We revere those documents there so much that they are nearly to being wholly to us. Constitution take of that addictive cov