…to Glen May. He was a lifelong rocketeer.”

[Update a few minutes later]

Dan Schrimpsher has more.

And Jim Bennett notes via private correspondence:

You will remember the scenes in The Right Stuff at the funerals of the test pilots; the Navy Hymn was always sung. This version includes the last verse, for space travellers, written by [Annapolis graduate] Robert Heinlein in 1947.

Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd