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Cabinet members and other VIPs

And they did so during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do

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Mercury Rising astronaut but it didn't matter atA riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldnt catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold Wara perilous time when the Soviet Union built the wall in Berlin, tested nuclear bombs more destructive than any in history, and beat the United States to every major milestone in space. The