“You don’t get in it, you put it on.” The Mercury spacecraft in which America’s first astronauts rode into space was so small and cramped that none of them could be taller than 5’11”. Why so small? The rockets of…
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Warning: 14-Year-Old Geek Ahead
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Godspeed, John Glenn
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