Prepare for LaunchĪfter waiting for more than a month at the launch site, the journalists finally had a date: February 20, 1962. Weaver was friends with Glenn, and it was at the writer’s request that the astronaut took the tiny National Geographic flag into space. They included writer Kenneth Weaver, who had won the magazine’s lottery for the opportunity to report on the launch. Representatives from the magazine were also present at the launch site. Photographer Dean Conger, who was on staff with the magazine, was assigned to NASA full time and had access to Glenn’s training and landing. National Geographic was involved in every step of the process as Glenn prepared for his flight, soared into orbit, and returned safely from space. The bag contained a camera, film, field glasses, and other flight gear. Around sunset, engineer Ralph Gendiellee handed Glenn his bag from the recovered space capsule. “I think the fact that I could take over and show that a pilot can control the capsule manually … satisfied me most,” he wrote. Noa and began recording what he remembered of his experiences. At another time and in another volume I may undertake to fill out the omissions here acknowledged but, whether that is done or not, my purpose in the work now published has been to lay the foundation for a series of studies on the origins and early environment of Christianity and on such more modem movements as the English revival of philosophic religion in the seventeenth century and the rise of romanticism in the eighteenth.Immediately after his return to Earth, John Glenn propped up his feet on the destroyer U.S.S. These alluring topics have been passed by, somewhat reluctantly, in order that attention might be concentrated on the ethical theme that runs through all Plato's discussions and is certainly the mainspring of his philosophy.

Almost nothing, for instance, is said of education and art and government, to name a few of the subsidiary subjects that occupy a large and important place in the Dialogues. Excerpt from Platonism Though this book goes out under the rather presumptuous title of Platonism, no one can be more aware than the author of the incompleteness of its argument.

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