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Race #1052

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Official speed 73.73 wpm (75.03 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start September 25, 2017 6:29:17pm UTC
Race Finish September 25, 2017 6:30:33pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 94.62
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The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffee, when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world, he was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen.