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Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was born on March 6, 1927, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, [1] the only child of Leroy Gordon Cooper Sr. and his wife, Hattie Lee née Herd. [2] His mother was a school teacher. His father enlisted in the United States Navy during World War I, and served on the presidential yacht USS Mayflower. After the war, Cooper Sr. completed ...
Gordon Roger Cooper (April 1, 1930 – March 15, 2022) was an American college football player and sports coach. He played collegiately for the Denver Pioneers as an end , where he was the national receptions leader in 1950, and later was selected by the Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the 1952 NFL draft .
Cooper joined the USAF in 1949, and flew F-84 Thunderjets and F-86 Sabres in Germany for four years. He graduated from the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, with Class 56D in 1956. Cooper flew Mercury-Atlas 9, the final Mercury mission. He was the first American to fly in space for more than a day ...
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then a United States Air Force major.
Gordon Cooper: Divorced 1970 Annie Castor (1943) John Glenn: Married until his death in 2016 Betty Moore (1945) Gus Grissom: Married until his death in the 1967 Apollo 1 accident Josephine Fraser (1946) Wally Schirra: Married until his death in 2007 Louise Brewer (1945) Alan Shepard: Married until his death in 1998. Marjorie Lunney (1955) Deke ...
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John Gordon Cooper (April 27, 1872 – January 7, 1955) was an Anglo-American railroad worker and politician who served 11 terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1915 to 1937. Early years [ edit ]
He was also one of the smallest of the astronauts, 5 feet 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (1.689 meters) tall, [14] so he found the confinement of the Gemini capsule less onerous than his Commander Gordon Cooper did. He was then named commander of the Gemini 8 backup crew, and later commander of Gemini 11 with pilot Richard Gordon.