Jamie (jamie_b818)

Race #78

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Official speed 50.12 wpm (110.38 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start November 21, 2020 12:50:17am UTC
Race Finish November 21, 2020 12:52:07am UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 3)
Accuracy 93.0%
Points 64.32
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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.