'Mercury Rising': How Cold War Fears Helped Launch America's Early Space Program - NPR2021-06-10-1623333961

'Mercury Rising': How Cold War Fears Helped Launch America's Early Space Program - NPR

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In Mercury Rising, historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the U.S. space program, when Cold War fears ruled, and no one was sure Glenn would survive America's first orbital flight.

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