Space: Inquest on Apollo

The President, the Vice President, and America's First Lady were at the gravesides, and millions watched on television as the Apollo astronauts were laid to rest last week: Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee at Arlington, and Edward White at West Point. Of all those who paid tribute to the three who died earthbound on a launch pad at Cape Kennedy, no one put the meaning of their deaths into clearer perspective than the Rev. Conrad Winborn, pastor of Ed White's home church in Seabrook, Texas. "Let us not expect to sing the victor's...

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