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Summary:Back in 1954, scientists and airmen were doing little more than limbering up for the great space race which was to get under way a decade later. But experiments in space technology were well advanced. On June 10 that year, at an air base in California, would-be astronauts were being subjected to severe tests to determine the effect of being blasted into space by rocket.
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