For 29½ hours, the flight was flawless. Streaking through space at 17,157 m.p.h.. Air Force Major Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. ate, slept, exchanged banter with ground-bound fellow astronauts, coolly ...
The U.S. has not sent a man into space since May 1963—when Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper stayed in orbit for 34 hr. 20 min. Cooper’s flight signaled the end of the Mercury program and the start of the ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Gordon Cooper was an Astronaut for NASA with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 Interview. Most appearances with John Glenn Jr. (2), ...
Funeral services for Mercury 7 astronaut Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper Jr., 77, who died Monday, will be held 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church, 15520 Ventura Blvd., Encino. Services ...
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John ...
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human ...
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