Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. - NASA
Former Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper - NASA
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Gordon Cooper, Astronaut, Is Dead at 77 - The New …
Oct 5, 2004 · WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - Gordon Cooper, the astronaut who flew the last of the pioneering Mercury space missions and stayed aloft in a Gemini capsule long enough to demonstrate that a trip to the...
Gordon Cooper | Biography, Spaceflights, & Facts
Sep 30, 2024 · Gordon Cooper (born March 6, 1927, Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S.—died October 4, 2004, Ventura, California) was one of the original team of seven U.S. astronauts. On May 15–16, 1963, he circled Earth 22 times in the …
Gordon Cooper: Record-Setting Astronaut in Mercury …
Feb 1, 2014 · Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr.,prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission, inside his Mercury spacecraft runs through one of the numerous pre-flight checks surrounded by dials, switches ...
L. Gordon Cooper Oral History - NASA
Cooper, Leroy Gordon Jr 'Gordo' - Encyclopedia …
MSC announced new assignments for the seven original astronauts: L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., and Alan B. Shepard, Jr., would be responsible for the remaining pilot phases of Project Mercury; Virgil I. Grissom would specialize in Project …