Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper Dies at 77
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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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The designer of the Mercury space capsules that took the first Americans into orbit has died at age 83, NASA announced Sunday. Maxime Faget led the space agency&#39;s engineering and development branch
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The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker Dan Cooper, who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished, releasing new details that it hopes will jog someone's memory. The man calling himself Dan Cooper, also known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest flight in Portland for a flight to Seattle on the night of Nov, 24, 1971, and commandeered the plane, claiming he had dynamite.
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The longest serving astronaut in history, John W. Young, announced his retirement on Tuesday. Mr. Young, who has spent 42 years at the National Aeronautics and Space
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CHICAGO -- Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who risked his life seeking to set records in high-tech balloons, gliders and jets, was declared dead Friday, 5 months after he vanished while flying in an ordinary small plane.
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On Monday, astronaut Gordon Cooper Jr., 77, died at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts.
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The man who soared to fame as the star of the Superman films and was grounded by a paralyzing accident in mid career has died at the age of 52.
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LOS ANGELES - Gordon Cooper, who was the youngest and perhaps cockiest member of the original Mercury astronauts and set the space endurance record that helped clear the way for the first moon landing, has died. He was 77...
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The last of the seven Project Mercury  astronauts who pioneered U.S. space exploration in the 1960s  remembered one of their own as a fearless pilot with the "right  stuff" in an emotional memorial ceremony on Friday for Gordon  Cooper.
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Maxime A. Faget, 83, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer whose innovative designs contributed greatly to manned spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle, died of cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Houston.
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Pioneering astronaut Gordon Cooper has died in California, at age 77. He was one of the seven Mercury astronauts who led the way in the exploration of space.
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Family members of the astronauts who died aboard the space shuttle Columbia watched as officials dedicated a granite memorial to their loved ones Tuesday, the second anniversary of the accident that killed the shuttle's seven-member crew.
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The last of the seven Project Mercury astronauts who pioneered U.S. space exploration in the 1960s remembered one of their own as a fearless pilot with the "right stuff" in an emotional memorial ceremony on Friday for Gordon Cooper.
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Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and an energetic grandson of pioneers who led his denomination during a period of great expansion in membership and facilities, died last night at his home in Salt Lake City, a church spokeswoman said.
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WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 5: Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the seven US astronauts who made the nationâs first manned spaceflights and became known as possessors of The Right Stuff, died on Monday at his home in Ventura, Calif.
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Thomas M. Donahue, one of the country&#39;s leading space and planetary scientists and a pioneer of space exploration, died Saturday of complications following heart surgery.
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Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who risked his life seeking to set records in high-tech balloons, gliders and jets, was declared dead Friday, 5 months after he vanished while flying in an ordinary small plane.