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...price tag will rise. And so, inevitably, will the cost in human life. Grissom, White and Chaffee will certainly not prove to be the last casualties. But the astronauts themselves have always been among the first to argue that though the risks are high, the value of space conquest is incalculably greater. The possibilities and rewards that wait for man on the infinite frontiers of space are limited only by the human imagination...
...program; we have been lucky so far." Grissom himself said in words that may long be remembered: "If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life...
Ready & Waiting. The impact of three deaths aboard a "bird" raised anew the question of whether the conquest of space is really worth the cost -in lives or in money. Congressional support has been relatively lukewarm recently, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials considered themselves lucky to get a $5.05 billion budget proposal from the President this year...
...history of mankind's progress, the conquest of space symbolizes one of man's oldest, most basic drives: the hunger for knowledge, the lure of every new frontier, the challenge of the impossible. And that is the legacy left behind by Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee- just as it was by men like Marco Polo, Magellan, Charles A. Lindbergh and Explorer Robert Falcon Scott, whose Antarctic memorial bears an inscription from Tennyson's Ulysses: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield...
...conquest, politics and business, Nicaragua for centuries has attracted the cheekiest and boldest of adventurers. Few have been cheekier, few bolder than the Somoza family, which for 31 years has, in one way or another, ruled Nicaragua. Last week, on the eve of an election that promised to install as President a third Somoza, chubby ex-General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Jr., 41, the opposition tried its best to trigger a coup d'etat. The result was riot and death for Nicaraguans and a narrow escape for a handful of foreigners...