On 31/01/15 9:21 PM, Jess Lurkin wrote:
I'm too lazy to research it at the moment - but t'was not Glenn.
Glenn was too much of a hairshirt to say that.


Allegedly Glenn said it in the press conference after the flight but
what he supposedly said was:
"People asked him [Alan Shepard] that [question] after the flight and
Shepard said: `I wasn’t scared, but I was up there looking around, and
suddenly I realized I was sitting on top of a rocket built by the lowest
bidder.’"

Unfortunately I cannot find an official transcript of the press
conference, only references to it.

Laurie