Godspeed John Glenn

"Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison".
-Bjork

Being a Moonchild, I will always be fascinated with all things associated with planets and rockets. Call it escapism - leaving planet earth and surrendering yourself to the great cosmos.

So imagine my joy when I learn today 20th February in 1962, John Glenn became the first person to orbit planet earth.

Scott Carpenter, NASA's Mission Controller gave us the immortal words "Godspeed John Glenn" as Friendship 7 blasted off into the skies.

“The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.”- William Shakespeare

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