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Another high altitude space toy for the rich, struggled to get up just above 60 miles
Old Shepard ( Smili’n Al ) went 116 miles up , controlled the orientation of his Mercury capsule at apogee with pitch and yaw thrusters , had a sneak look at Mother Earth , aligned his spacecraft for re entry attitude and plummeted straight down pulling 9 G’s at one point. All with late 50’s technology and sitting in his own urine
They have the gaul to call it New Shepard
My 2 cents .....
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