Storytime (sharlo)

Race #703

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Official speed 95.58 wpm (57.88 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start March 4, 2019 2:12:17am UTC
Race Finish March 4, 2019 2:13:15am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 2)
Accuracy 99.0%
Points 122.67
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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.