“Godspeed, John Glenn.”

— Scott Carpenter

Famous lines, as capsule communicator, during Glenn's liftoff from Cape Canaveral, to become the first American to orbit the Earth (20 February 1962)

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American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut 1925–2013

Charles Foster Johnson (1953) American musician

September 24, 2009 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34746_Glenn_Beck_Lies_About_LGF&only

“Glenn Beck: How many people here identify themselves as African Americans?
[audience raises hands]
Glenn Beck: Why?
Panelist: It's interchangeable.
Glenn Beck: Why not identify yourself as Americans?
Panelist: But people can look at you and tell you're black, you can't escape that.
Glenn Beck: Yeah, but I don't identify myself as white or a white American.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2009-11-13
Beck: I don't identify as white, why do black people identify as black?
Media Matters for America
2009-11-13
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911130029
2000s, 2009

“Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble?
(Glenn)”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

“Listen John—’
‘Who’s John?’
‘You’re John.’
‘I’m John?’
‘Yeah, I changed your name.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)

“Success to your meetings. Future of this country depends on breaking up the land monopoly—it withers the land, depresses wages, destroys independence, and drives millions into dwellings which poison their strength. Godspeed to every effort to put an end to this oppression.”

David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Telegram to a national conference to promote the taxation and rating of land held in Cardiff (13 October 1913), quoted in The Times (14 October 1913), p. 10
Chancellor of the Exchequer

“John Ashcroft - "John Ashcrack" - ibid.”

Jello Biafra (1958) singer and activist

Biafra's Nicknames for Various Political Figures

“What about that? It's John Brooks! It's John Brooks!”

Ian Darke (1950) British association football and boxing commentator

Ghana v. United States http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=gQC2SusDfIw (16 June 2014).
2010s, 2014, 2014 FIFA World Cup
Context: Zusi to take it, and there! It's there! What about that? It's John Brooks! It's John Brooks! For the USA! Have they stolen it? Quite incredible, he couldn't even have dreamt that.

“I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.”

John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States

2000s, 2008, Concession speech (2008)

“I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.”

Bob Monkhouse (1928–2003) English entertainer

Second obituary on BBC news website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1958051.stm

“To John I owed great obligation;
But John, unhappily, thought fit
To publish it to all the nation:
Sure John and I are more than quit.”

Matthew Prior (1664–1721) British diplomat, poet

Epigram (1718).

“Godspeed, John Glenn.”

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