June 2025
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
4h 53m
English
In 1967, three astronauts, Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom, and Ed White, perished in a fire during an exercise for the first Apollo mission. The evening before this tragedy, Star Trek aired its nineteenth episode of season one, titled “Tomorrow Is Yesterday.” Even in the show’s infancy, it offered a glimpse into the future, which stoked the imagination of science fiction fans, many of whom were central members and stakeholders of NASA, the space agency. Despite the Apollo tragedy, the show and its famous Starship Enterprise offered encouragement that the ...
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