Susan (houstonsleepingbeauty)

Race #3128

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Official speed 69.38 wpm (79.73 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 17, 2019 10:41:44pm UTC
Race Finish May 17, 2019 10:43:04pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 89.04
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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.