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Trudy Olson (1947) 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 ...
There he met his first wife, Trudy B. Olson (1927–1994) of Seattle, through the local flying club. She was active in flying, and would later become the only wife of a Mercury astronaut to have a private pilot certification. They were married on August 29, 1947, in Honolulu, when both were 20 years old. They had two daughters.
The Powder Puff Derby was frequently mentioned in the television series The Astronaut Wives Club (2015). Trudy Olson Cooper (1927-1994), the wife of astronaut Gordon Cooper, was a pilot who is depicted as longing to fly in such a race.
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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 ...
By the time the 1980s rolled around, Priscilla was famously making money on her own. She hired a team to turn Graceland into one of the most popular tourist attractions in the whole world and ...
In 2020 she played Trudy Cooper, the female lead in the Disney+ streaming TV series The Right Stuff. [12] In 2024 she appeared in eight episodes of Amazon Prime’s Cross as Shannon Whitmer, a woman abducted by a serial killer.