Their Finest Hour

"Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization…if we fail, then the whole world,…all that we have known and cared for…will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that…for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”

Friday, January 27, 2012

Apollo 1: 45 Years


Lieutenant Colonel Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, USAF
Lieutenant Colonel Edward H. White II, USAF
Lieutenant Commander Roger B. Chaffee, USN

Spacecraft fire, Launch Complex 34
18:31 EST - January 27, 1967

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. Our god-given curiosity will force us to go there ourselves because in the final analysis, only man can fully evaluate the moon in terms understandable to other men.
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