The Great Gagaran Flight and the Space Race

After uri gegarin's glorious flight, the usa. Responds a few weeks later by sending up their first astronaut. He was allan shepard, but he spent only a few minutes in space, compared to gegarin’s complete orbit around the earth. And that's the boldness of verner von brown's plan. I think we could accomplish this objective in 19 67 or 19 68. At this point in 19 61, the united states is hopelessly behind. But if they are ready to wave certain emergency safety features and limit the voyage to one man, we have an excellent chance of beating the soviets to the first landing of a crew