Gordo Cooper, American hero and astronaut
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But on that glorious day in May, 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world.
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By Timothy R. Gaffney Staff Writer  The first American woman in space and the founder of FedEx are among five air and space legends the National Aviation Hall of Fame has picked as its 2007 enshrinees.
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The last of the seven Project Mercury astronauts who pioneered US space exploration in the 1960s remembered one of their own as a fearless pilot with the &quot;right stuff&quot; in
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Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper was remembered Friday by NASA officials and fellow space pioneers as "not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut."
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Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper was remembered Friday by NASA officials and fellow space pioneers as "not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut."    Cooper, who on the final flight of the Mercury program became the first American to spend more than 24 hours in space, died of natural causes Oct. 4 at his home in Ventura, Calif...
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Leroy Gordon Cooper, one of the nation&#39;s first astronauts who once set a space endurance record by traveling more than 3.3 million miles aboard Gemini 5 in 1965, died on Monday, NASA said.
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KOROLYOV, Russia -- A U.S. astronaut and his Ru
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Gordon Cooper, who as one of the original Mercury astronauts was a pioneer in human space exploration, has died. He was 77.
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By Wu Chong  US astronaut Neil Armstrong descended from landing craft Eagle on July 20, 1969, and his next action captivated the world.
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Gordon Cooper, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts who helped pioneer human space exploration, piloting the last of the Mercury missions and the troubled Gemini 5 flight, died on Monday. He was 77.
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Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the seven original US astronauts, who made the nation&#39;s first manned spaceflights and became known as possessors of &quot;The Right Stuff,&quot; died yesterday at his home in Ventura, Calif.
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By Associated Press  HOUSTON - It's a junkyard out there in space and sometimes astronauts accidentally contribute to the litter.  In 1965, the first American spacewalker, Ed White, lost a glove when he went outside for the first time.
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As a retired pilot himself, Roy W. Roush knows a good aviator holds the elevation steady while gliding through the clouds. In the 15 years he was friends with space pioneer Leroy Gordon Cooper, Roush flew
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By AJ HOSTETLER  Astronauts are people, too.  The pilots, doctors, engineers and scientists who become astronauts go through stringent psychological evaluation in addition to rigorous training in the years before their space missions.
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The commander of the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope; an astronaut who once set a U.S. men's record for time in space; the first life sciences mission commander; and the astronaut who led the first assembly mission to the International Space Station, are all to be honored this May as the 2008 class of inductees into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
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Russian rescue workers help astronauts get out of the Soyuz escape capsule after Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Yuri Shargin, and American NASA astronaut Mike Fincke from international space station were parachuted near the town of Arkalyk in north