Gordon Cooper
Astronaut
1927 – 2004
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Who was Gordon Cooper?
Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., also known as Gordon Cooper, was an American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States.
Cooper piloted the longest and final Mercury spaceflight in 1963. He was the first American to sleep in space during that 34-hour mission and was the last American to be launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission. In 1965, Cooper flew as command pilot of Gemini 5.
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- Born
- Mar 6, 1927
Shawnee - Also known as
- Leroy Gordon "Hot Dog" Cooper, Jr.
- Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr.
- Colonel Leroy Gordon Cooper
- Col. Gordon Gooper
- Col. Gordon Cooper
- Gordo
- The Oklahoma Hotdog
- Parents
- Spouses
- Trudy Olson
(1947/08/29 - ) - Susan Taylor
(1972/05/06 - 2004/10/04)
- Trudy Olson
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Air Force Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- Oklahoma
- Died
- Oct 4, 2004
Ventura
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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