Urgency (urgency)

Race #5637

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Official speed 66.11 wpm (83.68 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start January 16, 2020 8:29:19pm UTC
Race Finish January 16, 2020 8:30:42pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 4)
Accuracy 94.0%
Points 84.85
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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.