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The Eagle Has Landed…

Audacity is a peculiarly American trait. On May 5th, 1961, the United States of America succeeded in launching a Redstone rocket propelling Freedom 7, a Mercury space capsule inhabited by first astronaut, Alan Shepard a distance of 101 nautical miles into space in a 15 minute sub-orbital flight, and successfully recovering both the capsule and […]... Read More