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• notoftenthat@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They had only imagined the moon flight…

  On July 21, 1961, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom flew the second NASA Mercury-Redstone mission. But that trip, nearly identical to Shepard’s almost ended in disaster. Grissom’s capsule, Liberty Bell 7, sank after the successful splashdown in the Atlantic, and Grissom came close to drowning.

  The space race has a lot of “learning by doing” with some pretty icky lessons learned along the way.

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