</font><font size=6>The first U.S. spaceship was a <font COLOR=red><b> cone-shaped one-man capsule</b></font>
with a cylinder mounted on top. Two meters (6 ft, 10 in) long, 1.9 meters (6 ft, 2 1/2 in) in diameter, a 5.8 meter (19 ft, 2 in) escape tower was fastened to the cylinder of the capsule.