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60 years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to travel in space, climbing ~116 miles (188 km) above Earth! Shortly after, President John F. Kennedy committed the United States to a lunar landing before the end of the decade: https://t.co/1syroEq84g https://t.co/TO1GtAUgZA — PolitiTweet.org