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The First Swiss Watch In Space Is Relaunching, and It’s Not the One You’re Thinking Of
Omega and Bulova are the watches most often associated with early space flights, but it was Breitling that produced the first Swiss wristwatch to travel outside Earth’s atmosphere. In 1962, NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times during the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission, becoming only the second American to do so. On Carpenter’s wrist…
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