Spoiler: Boeing Starliner launch was canceled the day after.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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Did they delete this tweet? I don't see it on their nitter page. It would have been on May 5.
Also, just found this on Alan Shepard's wiki page: "On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, and the first to orbit the Earth.[70] It was another body blow to American pride.[67] When Shepard heard the news he slammed his fist down on a table so hard a NASA public relations officer feared he might have broken his hand.[71]"
The American mission didn't travel very far at all either
Compared to Gagarin's orbit
Mercury Project was like my KSP flights