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Kennedy had to keep his attention elsewhere, and after a while, what he was seeing could not have pleased him. The haze that surrounded his plane as he first climbed into the sky did not disperse, largely obscuring the fingernail paring of a moon that was out that evening. Stars were probably erased completely. Up and down the New England coast, other pilots began flying into the same soup. A number of them radioed the FAA for permission to land at alternative, inland airports, where visibility was better. But Kennedy, who never made radio contact throughout the trip, pressed...
...space shuttle Columbia sits idle on the launchpad, its mission scrubbed until Friday because of persistent glitches, TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger is reminded how far mighty NASA has fallen since JFK fired our imaginations with his promise. "Three decades later, one of the great disappointments of the moon landing was that there was no real institutional follow-up," he says. "We did it to beat the Russians, and when we had we immediately began to stand down...
...Grissom?s capsule has been pulled from the ocean. The capsule Liberty Bell 7, which had lain in water three miles deep since 1961, was brought to the surface by an underwater salvage team around 2:15 a.m. on Tuesday. "Kennedy promised to send a man to the moon and bring him back," says Kluger. "But he didn?t plan for anything else after that." Maybe that?s part of the reason we're so upset about the death of his son, who represented a glimmer of hope for the future...
...Swigert believed, you can either go to the moon or you can appreciate the significance of going, but you can't do both. If that's the choice, it's possible that the nearly 4 billion people the astronauts left behind when they set off on their journeys--the people who get to look at the pictures and study the rocks and retell the tales the explorers brought home--just might have got the better part of the deal...
DIED. CHARLES ("Pete") CONRAD, 69, third man to walk on the moon; in a motorcycle accident; in Ojai, Calif. Conrad was one of the more colorful astronauts. Setting foot on the lunar surface he said, "Whoopee! That may have been one small [step] for Neil, but it's a long one for me!" Recently he had been trying to start a space airline...