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Re:Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars by njloof on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:36PM (#12647596)
Just ask Alan Shepard. You know, the first American in space?
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Re:Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:12PM (#12647941)
Presumably because in this sense, the Mercury wasn't "his spaceship" as he didn't own it or the organization that produced it (like Gagarin and the Vostok, for that matter).
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Re:Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars by rbanffy on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:53AM (#12650345)
Mercury was capable of staying in space. The rocket that put it on a suborbital flight is a different thing.
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