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“Darkstar,” the reusable, piloted hypersonic aircraft shown in Top Gun: Maverick, is now on display at the Palm Springs Air Museum.

Senator glenn, i'm here for this flight coming up. but to you guys i'm john, just another test pilot, another astronaut with you and i'm glad to be back, glad to be part of your group. he came down to our level. you could run down on the elevator and ask him how the training was going. i think one of the things i remember is his humility, a senator and national icon of the space age, a very approachable guy, and so was his wife. they were role models for all of us. >> the other piece of his life that obviously was very important to him was as his role as a senator. he wasn't really that comfor...

Pad and witnessing a rocket blow up on a pad, that's more impressive than the thin skin of the vehicle. >> for our viewers, we're breaking away just for a second to look at what's happening there as we get set to remember john glenn, vice president joe biden greeting some of the people in attendance. he will be speaking this afternoon and paying tribute to john glenn as well. tom, did john glenn give you any special piece of advice that you remember and you took to heart in your space career. >> i met john in 1998 when he came to train for the shuttle "discovery" flight. he had a lot of resear...

Influenced by space pioneers like john glenn who, when he took that flight on the friendship 7, really he didn't know whether or not he was going to come brack safely or not. it was on shear grit and courage in terms of making sure he was going to be prepared for that flight. he was very low key about it, but very determined to serve his country in this way. could you talk more about that, tom. >> john glenn went into his mercury career with his eyes wide open. he and the other astronauts experienced launch failures in cape canaveral. they saw atlas rockets that were going to carry them into s...

His flight that inspired me to really commit to trying to become an astronaut. luckily i made it. but it was literally john's -- john and john's flight that were my inspiration for becoming an astronaut. >> you know, his accomplishments certainly so many, but when we take a look at that moment in time, the time when we were in the midst of the space race, he shattered that myth and truly put america on the map. >> he did. it's hard for people to remember back to those times, even people my age. but america was in the dumps. we were psychologically under water with the soviet union