Feb 22 1961
From The Space Library
French Veronique launched capsule containing rat (Hector) to 95-mile altitude, recovered successfully. NASA announces that the Mercury seven have been reduced to three candidates for the first manned space flight. Alan B. Shepard, John H. Glenn and Virgil I. Grissom.
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