Sphynx (sphynxy)

Race #1561

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Official speed 69.76 wpm (79.30 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start November 26, 2019 2:23:48am UTC
Race Finish November 26, 2019 2:25:07am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 89.53
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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.