We're months away from seeing the first commercial spacewalk.
crewed Mercury capsule flew in 1963.
The conical Mercury vehicle had a window roughly at eye level for its astronauts to see through. Much like the Soviet Union's Vostok spacecraft, it could only fit one astronaut, and much like the Vostok program, Mercury flew a total of six astronauts.Gemini was essentially an adapted version of the U.S.'s Mercury capsule, designed to carry two astronauts to space.
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