What 1968 Was
1968 is over and I'm trying to figure out what kind of year it was. The worst year and the best year. The year America broke and also the year it reached the Moon.
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Tag: tragedy
A Terrible Friday Afternoon
Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are dead. There was a fire on the launch pad yesterday afternoon during a ground test. I heard it on the radio on the way home from work. I had to pull over. I sat in the car for a long time before…
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The Worst Day
I wrote ten days ago that I was worried about Apollo 1. I am not going to feel any vindication about that. Three men are dead.
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