Spoiler: Boeing Starliner launch was canceled the day after.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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The American mission didn't travel very far at all either
Compared to Gagarin's orbit
It wasn’t even orbital. It was a 15-minute suborbital flight which is even more embarrassing.
And it took the Americans almost another year to achieve an orbital flight
But they did learn some things
The yanks took trucker culture to space
First person in orbit: Yuri Gagarin
Second person in orbit: Gherman Titov
Amerikkka took third place in a one on one race
Mercury Project was like my KSP flights