John Glenn blasts plans to end the space shuttle program

COLUMBUS — Former U.S. Sen. and astronaut John Glenn isn’t mincing words about federal plans to end NASA’s space shuttle program and the international space station.

“I could give you about a two-hour dissertation on my feelings on that,” the first American to orbit the earth told reporters in Columbus Friday. “We have spent about $100 billion on the [international space station] and setting up [the] most unique laboratory ever put together. And then to just end the shuttle and end the space station I think is just crazy.”

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