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...first U.S. satellite, Explorer I, from Cape Canaveral in 1958, and has been on hand for nearly every manned flight since, vividly recalls the only previous tragedy in the U.S. space program. It occurred in 1967, when an Apollo capsule caught fire on the launch pad, and Astronauts Virgil ("Gus") Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee perished in the inferno. Only the day before, Morse had been shooting aboard their spacecraft, and his photos of the three men lying strapped in their seats were used by NASA to study the accident that killed them...
...second disaster to strike NASA's pioneering space program in 56 manned space missions. In January 1967, astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee burned to death while preparing for an Apollo flight when a fire destroyed their capsule during a training drill...
...lacked practical musical experience, so Glass set out for New York City and the Juilliard School, from which he graduated in 1962. Dissatisfied with his technique, he headed for Paris a couple of years later to study with Nadia Boulanger, the renowned pedagogue who had taught Aaron Copland and ; Virgil Thomson. "Boulanger believed that the training we got in America was simply not thorough enough," says Glass. "She was convinced that at age 27 I had to redo completely my musical education." As the oldest member of the Boulangerie, he studied counterpoint six to eight hours a day. To help...
Speaking the scholarly language of the day, Latin, was never a problem, though, for the young men who ended up here-they were admitted because of their ability to read and understand Tully, Virgil and other "ordinary classical authors," to say nothing of the Greeks...
...scientific name is Ingalls Rink-or rinkus ingallsus, as Virgil might have referred to it. But in the vernacular, this killer of Crimson teams past is known as the Yale Whale...