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Preparing for launch

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On Tuesday, 21 February 1961, NASA finally released the names of John Glenn, Gus Grissom and Alan Shepard as having been selected as the prime candidates to enter the special training required for the final stages of preparedness for the first suborbital Mercury mission.

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    Colin Burgess

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Burgess, C. (2014). Preparing for launch. In: Liberty Bell 7. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04391-3_3

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