“We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The right stuff
On May 16, 1963 Gordon "Godo" Cooper, AKA the hotshot, completed the longest manned Mercury flight: 34 hrs, 40 mins. America was now winning the space.
