If I am honest, I found the exuberant narration just a little too nauseating as we spend half an hour watching how the USA celebrated not just the achievements of their astronaut John Glenn but of it's own achievements and aspirations in outer space. Jack Webb's commentary is effusive well past a point of adulation and that rather overwhelmed some of the interesting archive that is strung out thinly for an half an hour that is big on propaganda and sentiment but light on science or, even, adventure. Glenn himself contributes via existing interviews, so there's no specific insight from him into…
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