John Glenn se narodil v roce 1921 v Ohiu. U\u017e od \u00fatl\u00e9ho v\u011bku m\u011bl v\u00e1\u0161e\u0148 pro letectv\u00ed a b\u011bhem druh\u00e9 sv\u011btov\u00e9 v\u00e1lky a v\u00e1lky v Koreji se stal pilotem. Po v\u00e1lk\u00e1ch se p\u0159ipojil k programu NASA Mercury Seven, co\u017e byla skupina astronaut\u016f vybran\u00fdch pro prvn\u00ed pilotovan\u00e9 kosmick\u00e9 lety.<\/p>\n\n
Dne 20. \u00fanora 1962 se Glenn stal prvn\u00edm Ameri\u010danem, kter\u00fd ob\u011bhl Zemi na palub\u011b kapsle Friendship 7. Jeho mise trvala 4 hodiny, 55 minut a 23 sekund a zapsala ho do historie dob\u00fdv\u00e1n\u00ed vesm\u00edru. Glenn\u016fv \u00fasp\u011bch byl mimo\u0159\u00e1dn\u011b v\u00fdznamn\u00fd, proto\u017ee se odehr\u00e1l pouh\u00fdch 10 m\u011bs\u00edc\u016f pot\u00e9, co se sov\u011btsk\u00fd kosmonaut Jurij Gagarin stal prvn\u00edm \u010dlov\u011bkem na ob\u011b\u017en\u00e9 dr\u00e1ze Zem\u011b.<\/p>\n\n
Po sv\u00e9m historick\u00e9m kosmick\u00e9m letu Glenn pokra\u010doval ve spolupr\u00e1ci s NASA. V roce 1998 se p\u0159ipojil k pos\u00e1dce raketopl\u00e1nu Discovery a stal se tak nejstar\u0161\u00edm Ameri\u010danem, kter\u00fd cestoval za hranice zemsk\u00e9 atmosf\u00e9ry. Krom\u011b sv\u00e9 kari\u00e9ry astronauta p\u016fsobil Glenn 24 let jako americk\u00fd sen\u00e1tor za Ohio. Byl siln\u00fdm zast\u00e1ncem pr\u016fzkumu vesm\u00edru a cht\u011bl pokra\u010dovat v odv\u00e1\u017en\u00e9m nov\u00e9m kosmick\u00e9m programu s c\u00edlem dos\u00e1hnout Marsu a M\u011bs\u00edce.<\/p>\n\n
John Glenn zem\u0159el v roce 2016 ve v\u011bku 95 let. Je vzpom\u00edn\u00e1n jako velk\u00fd americk\u00fd hrdina a pr\u016fkopn\u00edk dob\u00fdv\u00e1n\u00ed vesm\u00edru. Jeho odkaz i nad\u00e1le inspiruje generace astronaut\u016f a nad\u0161enc\u016f do vesm\u00edru.<\/p>\n\n
Michael Neufeld, kur\u00e1tor programu Mercury ve Smithsonov\u011b n\u00e1rodn\u00edm leteck\u00e9m a vesm\u00edrn\u00e9m muzeu, uvedl, \u017ee Glenn byl \u201ejedn\u00edm ze dvou nebo t\u0159\u00ed nejd\u016fle\u017eit\u011bj\u0161\u00edch astronaut\u016f v historii programu\u201c spolu s Neilem Armstrongem a Alanem Shepardem. Glennovo dosa\u017een\u00ed st\u00e1t se prvn\u00edm Ameri\u010danem na ob\u011b\u017en\u00e9 dr\u00e1ze Zem\u011b bylo v\u00fdznamn\u00fdm miln\u00edkem v americk\u00e9m z\u00e1vod\u011b o vesm\u00edr se Sov\u011btsk\u00fdm svazem.<\/p>\n\n
Glenn\u016fv portr\u00e9t z roku 1988 od Henryho C. Casselliho je vystaven v N\u00e1rodn\u00ed portr\u00e9tn\u00ed galerii ve Washingtonu, D.C., na pam\u00e1tku jeho \u017eivota a \u00fasp\u011bch\u016f. Smithsonovy sb\u00edrky obsahuj\u00ed tak\u00e9 n\u011bkolik artefakt\u016f spojen\u00fdch s Glennem, v\u010detn\u011b skafandru, kter\u00fd m\u011bl na sob\u011b b\u011bhem sv\u00e9ho historick\u00e9ho letu, a z\u00e1pisn\u00edku, kter\u00fd si s sebou nesl a obsahoval mapy sv\u011bta a dal\u0161\u00ed \u00fadaje.<\/p>\n\n
John Glenn\u016fv p\u0159\u00edb\u011bh i nad\u00e1le inspiruje lidi po cel\u00e9m sv\u011bt\u011b. Jeho odvaha, odhodl\u00e1n\u00ed a neochv\u011bjn\u00e1 v\u00edra v s\u00edlu lidsk\u00e9 d\u016fmyslnosti n\u00e1m p\u0159ipom\u00ednaj\u00ed, \u010deho v\u0161eho jsme schopni, kdy\u017e se odv\u00e1\u017e\u00edme sn\u00edt ve velk\u00e9m a posouvat hranice lidsk\u00e9ho pozn\u00e1n\u00ed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
John Glenn: Americk\u00fd hrdina a pr\u016fkopn\u00edk dob\u00fdv\u00e1n\u00ed vesm\u00edru Ran\u00fd \u017eivot a kari\u00e9ra John Glenn se narodil v roce 1921 v Ohiu. U\u017e od \u00fatl\u00e9ho v\u011bku m\u011bl v\u00e1\u0161e\u0148 pro letectv\u00ed a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476],"tags":[1231,19,2619,434,2620],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-science","tag-astronauts","tag-american-history","tag-john-glenn","tag-space-exploration","tag-science-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24779,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/24779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}