Conn. Teen Fights to Get Astronaut's Mercury Space Suit to His Museum

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MADISON, Conn. - A 15-year-old girl with a Web site, a summer of free time and an astronaut for a hero is trying to solve a 3-year- old dispute over one of NASA's earliest space suits.

The family of pioneering astronaut Gus Grissom has been trying to get NASA to give them his 1961 Mercury space suit. NASA says the suit is government property and an artifact that should be kept at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Florida.

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Conn. Teen Fights to Get Astronaut's Mercury Space Suit to His Museum

Enter Amanda Meyer, space enthusiast and co-captain of her school's debate team. She believes she has a compromise and, after launching an Inter...

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