In 1963, a plane flew to space. Why couldn’t we go farther?

In 1926, when Albert Scott Crossfield was five years old, a priest came to his home to administer the last rites. Suffering from an advanced case of pneumonia that had scarred his lungs and attacked his heart, the young Crossfield was drifting in and out of a coma when his parents summoned Father Skiperelli. They feared their son would not make it through the night. Despite his delirium, Crossfield distinctly remembered Father “Skip” noting how the pictures of airplanes plastere