The finale of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
There's Branches, by Keith Kenniff
Then The Big Ocean, from Ben Sollee's score to Maidentrip.
Then End of the World from Dan Romer's score to Beasts of the Southern Wild.
There's The Sage, pulling once more from the dope-as-hell self-titled album from the Chico Hamilton Quintet.
There's a loop pulled from Worm is Green's song, Brand New Day
There's The Light, from my pal Jimmy's wonderful project, The Album Leaf. Go buy their albums.
The piece at the end is the theme to Charlie Countryman from Christophe Beck's score.
Oh: stuff gets heavy to Ghosts I from Nine Inch Nails.
And finally (though out of order), playing over the fall-out from JFK's death is Now by Goldmund.
Notes
A selected bibliography.
We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program, by Richard Paul and Steven Moss
Voices of Contemporary and Historical Black Pioneers, Farmer & Shepard-Wynn, editors
The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Sciences, by Gulbert, Sawyer, and Fannin
The All-American Boys, Walt Cunningham's memoir.
The Ebony article mentioned in the piece can be read here.