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‘Mercury Rising’ Explores The U.S.’s Treacherous Attempts to Control Space – WJSU

On the morning of Feb. 20, 1962, about 100,000 spectators gathered in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to witness the launch of the Friendship…

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On the morning of Feb. 20, 1962, about 100,000 spectators gathered in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to witness thelaunch of the Friendship 7, the United States’ first mission to put an astronaut in orbit around the Earth.
It was early in the space race, and the…

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