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by njloof 3542 days ago
Just ask Alan Shepard. You know, the first American in space?
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blacksmith_tb 3542 days ago
Presumably 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).
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rbanffy 3541 days ago
Mercury was capable of staying in space. The rocket that put it on a suborbital flight is a different thing.
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