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This write-up seems to skip the part of the story where John Glenn popularized the word glitch.
by raldi 6y ago
This write-up seems to skip the part of the story where John Glenn popularized the word glitch.
- CharlesW 6y agoParagraph 4.
- raldi 6y agoNo; that describes how Glenn learned the term. Nothing in the article describes how he popularized it.
- CharlesW 6y agoWell, TFA notes that John Glenn introduced what was previously NASA jargon to a mainstream audience in a book about the Mercury Seven. The book's publication date was during a very exciting year of the "Space Race" — first American in orbit (John Glenn), first orbital solar observatory, first spacecraft to impact the far side of the Moon, first active communications satellite, etc. — so was presumably very popular.
- raldi 6y agoI'm not seeing any evidence the book was particularly widely read; it's barely googlable and shows up on no historic bestsellers list I can find. Apparently I'm not the only skeptic: > One might surmise from this that Glenn and his fellow astronauts took a highly technical term and "adopted" it into a more general term for any malfunction. But that overlooks the history of the term predating the space program — a history only now becoming clear. https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-hidden-history-of-glitch/ https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-hidden-his...