June 22, 1998

TO: Senator Colonel John Glenn, Astronaut

Dear Sir:

Congratulations Senator on breaking the age barrier. That's a notable accomplishment, but why stop at 70? Here you are, a relatively young man. Let's raise the barrier. I am offering myself, at 89, as a subject to accompany you to raise the limit. Since my birthday is 10/10/08 I'll be 90 (a good round number) then. My health is reasonably good as a result of taking 10 grams of vitamin C per day and good amounts of other vitamins and minerals for many years. I am not a flyer in the sense of piloting a plane, but i have traveled more than 1,066 power miles in planes including a sleeper DC-3 between San Francisco and Houston.

I am a Ph.D. chemist from Cal Berkeley, and I spent 33 years with Shell Development as a research chemist and a research supervisor, quite a bit of it working on air force problems. I am a senior member of the AIAA starting as a member of American Rocket Society in '58.

I include a summary CV to give you an overview of my career.

My extracurricular activities include a star goalie in hockey, a competent baseball player, a center forward in soccer, a high scoring wing in rugby starting with the Cal 1932 side that revived rugby on the west coast.

I was the president of the American Chemical Society, founder and chair of the ACS's Project Seed and of the Council of Scientific Society President, founder and first chair of the Association of Industrialized Scientists - an NLRB certified union of professionals at Shell Development. At present I am chair of Senior Scientists Committee of the California Section of the ACS and president of the Calsec Consultants, Inc., a non-profit organization.

So, you see I am well equipped to be the first 90-year-old to go into space.

With best regards,

Alan C. Nixon