Time Essay: God, Man and Apollo

In this time of Christmas

We celebrate the Eighth Day of Man...

Apollo's missions move, and Christus seek,

And wonder as we look among the stars

Did he know these?

—Ray Bradbury, from the cantata Christus Apollo

THE last of the moon men are back; the gantries are idle now, stark and skeletal against the Florida sky. On the moon there are flags from the earth, and on earth there are pieces of the moon. The Apollos have passed from the evening news into an assured place in history. They have opened a chestful...

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