Somebody To Look Up To - Literally (8)

If one day as I was washing dishes, and a genie happened to pop out of a jam jar and extended to me the opportunity to meet someone, from the present or the past, I would choose to meet John Glenn, one of America's first astronauts. I admire John Glenn, along with the six other astronauts of NASA's Mercury program, for having the courage to ride into the unknown frontier of outer space. Some of the questions I would ask him would be:

(1) How did you get into the space program?

(2) How did you feel when you found out you were going to be one of America's first astronauts?

(3) How did you like the publicity of being such a celebrity?

(4) What was it like on launch day, after you were strapped in, and the hatch had been closed?

(5) Did you have any misgivings about riding into space on top of a missile?

(6) What was it like when you reached space and began experiencing weightlessness?

(7) When Mission Control told you of the potential problem with your capsule's heat shield, what immediately went through your mind?

(8) Can you describe the experience of reentering the atmosphere with the capsule's retro-pack still on? Was it terrifying?

(9) What do you have to say aobut our Earth, having seen it from outer space, asonly a handful of people have seen it?

(10) Do you sitll believe in space exploration? Why?