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Who really coined the phrase "Light the Candle!" to commence with a rocket launch?
This NASA's image of a Mercury-Redstone rocket Freedom 7 carrying Alan Shepard, the first American in space, is titled Light the Candle:
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Did NASA use metric units for the Mercury missions?
Did NASA use metric or English units for Project Mercury?
For example, did they measure delta-v in meters/second or in feet/second?
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