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njloof
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Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars
Just ask Alan Shepard. You know, the first American in space?
blacksmith_tb
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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).
rbanffy
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Mercury was capable of staying in space. The rocket that put it on a suborbital flight is a different thing.
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