“To look out at this kind of creation and not believe in God is to me impossible,” John Glenn told reporters, “It just strengthens my faith.”
John Glenn, who has died at age 95, was a trailblazer in science, a devoted public servant, and an American hero. He was also a man of deep faith, with a vantage point on God’s handiwork that few humans experience.
As the first American to orbit the Earth, Glenn was an example to those who came after him not just for his bravery and scientific acumen but also for his faith.
On his spaceflights, he said, he prayed every day and for him his faith was reinforced by his experience in space.