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Race #8603

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Official speed 89.53 wpm (61.79 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start January 23, 2020 12:50:25am UTC
Race Finish January 23, 2020 12:51:26am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Opponents 1. poem (116.89 wpm)
3. decimus (76.13 wpm)
Accuracy 99.0%
Points 114.89
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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.