Nixon (kadar09)

Race #781

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Official speed 91.04 wpm (60.76 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start January 19, 2018 12:34:36pm UTC
Race Finish January 19, 2018 12:35:37pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 116.83
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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.