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Year of the Quiet NASA and Cooper’s Mercury Triumph
The 1963 space year saw minimal successes despite a troubled NASA program. Leroy Cooper’s 34 hour Mercury flight in Faith 7 marked the high point, with Venusian delays and budget cuts hampering Gemini and other projects while the Soviet Vostok program posted notable milestones.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
America
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U. S
Cape Canaveral
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Cooper
Frank Merriwell
Faith-7
Headquarers
Washington
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
Texas
Kennedy
James E. Webb
Gemini
Space Agency
Soviet Union
Valery Bykovsky
Valentina Tereshkoval
Bykovsky
Tereshkova
United States
U.S
Syncoms 1
Telestar 2
Tiros
Vela Hotel
Midas
Samos
Centaur
Moon
Air Force
Defense Department
Ranger
Nimbus
U.S. Weather Bureau
Andrian Nikolayev
Cosmonette Tereshkova
Moonport
Johnson