On July 21, 1961, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom flew the second NASA Mercury-Redstone mission. But that trip, nearly identical to Shepard’s almost ended in disaster. Grissom’s capsule, Liberty Bell 7, sank after the successful splashdown in the Atlantic, and Grissom came close to drowning.
The space race has a lot of “learning by doing” with some pretty icky lessons learned along the way.
Imagine surviving a whole ass moon flight just to perish at sea because no one comes to get you…
They had only imagined the moon flight…
The space race has a lot of “learning by doing” with some pretty icky lessons learned along the way.
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