Russia’s new hypersonic missile ‘can travel 27 times faster than the speed of sound’

Country leads world in engineering new class of weapons, claims Vladimir Putin

US astronaut Alan B Shepard Jr sitting in his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, ready for launch on 5 May 1961. Just 23 days earlier, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first man in space. After several delays and more than four hours in the capsule, Shepard was ready to go, and he famously urged mission controllers to “fix your little problem and light this candle”.

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