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In late '61, early '62, i forget about which, and he orbited for 24 hours. nasa just says we've. we're probably caught up in the gemini program. . he became good friends with jfk. president kennedy and the kennedy family. . john kennedy gave nasa orders not to let him fly anymore, because he didn't want to the kill a national hero. ment -- he figured it out, as you know, and he got into politics. he came back to fly in 1998 on the shuttle discovery at the age of 77, and by golly, when he got

To be president. . that's with the unthat's always been the head scratcher to me f.ment. walk me tlul that will. i think he easily could have picked john glenn. who was he most comfortable with? i suppose john glenn missed out on that competition by a matter of inches. >> what's interesting about glenn's political career, what made him the perfect american hero in space isn't necessarily the perfect skill set for politics. or maybe it didn't work for him. >> i think that's a really powerful insight. i said to somebody earlier when