In my opinion sports and games wasn't very prominent in the 60's, but rather a thing people did and watched to enjoy themselves. ... The capsule left the earth's atmosphere in a ball of fire and returned the say way, and Shepard became the first American to travel into space. ... Afterwards we discover the US had won its race when astronaut Alan Shepard climbed into the Freedom 7, traveling into space, which took only fifteen minutes. ...

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