“Higher and Faster”: Remembering Project Mercury’s Final Flight, 60 Years On (Part 1)

OTD in 1963, "Original Seven" astronaut Gordon Cooper launched for the final flight of Project Mercury. Sixty years on, AmericaSpace looks back on his historic day-long voyage.

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