John Glenn’s Heroism in the Era of Top Down Analytics

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John Glenn sat atop a Mercury Redstone rocket like this one, totally dependent on the analytics Mission Control used to determine his spaceflight's fate.John Glenn, senator, astronaut and the first American to orbit the Earth, died in Columbus on Thursday.  Senator Glenn was the last of the Mercury 7 Astronauts. We’ve lost our last link to an era when a courageous few were brave enough to volunteer to sit alone on top of a rocket while everyone else involved was in a protected environment or bunker three miles away. Read More