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Just ask Alan Shepard. You know, the first American in space?
by njloof 10y ago
Just ask Alan Shepard. You know, the first American in space?
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoPresumably because in this sense, the Mercury wasn't "his spaceship" as he didn't own it or the organization that produced it (like Gagarin and the Vostok, for that matter).
- rbanffy 10y agoMercury was capable of staying in space. The rocket that put it on a suborbital flight is a different thing.