Astronaut Gordon &#39;Gordo&#39; Cooper, 1927-2004
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Grant writes &quot;Leroy Gordon &#39;Gordo&#39; Cooper, one of America&#39;s first seven astronauts, died today in his home at the age of 77.
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Nearly 300 students were spellbound at an Ohio theater when astronaut and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, described his 1962 space flight.  Glenn, 85, was the first American to orbit Earth on Feb. 20, 1962.
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_ Gordon Cooper was the last astronaut to take flight during NASA&#39;s pioneering Mercury program, but he achieved many key firsts as he piloted Faith 7 capsule in May of 1963.
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By A.J. Hostetler, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 7--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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Pioneering NASA engineer Maxime Faget, who designed the Project Mercury capsule that carried the first US astronauts into space and worked on every subsequent manned spacecraft including the space shuttle, has died at the age of 83
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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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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 spare glove when he went outside for the first time.
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The renowned physicist has always had a hankering for space travel. He'll start with a brief zero-gravity flight in April. By the Associated Press.
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NASA&#39;s most experienced astronaut, John Young, was honored by NASA Tuesday night at the National Air &amp; Space Museum for his 42 years of service as he prepares to retire.
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I have been to zero gravity and flown like Superman. This is something that only astronauts and the stars of Apollo 13 have done before.
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Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper was remembered Friday by NASA (news - web sites) officials and fellow space pioneers as &quot;not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut.
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By Al Neuharth  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- This gateway to the universe has had 322 astronauts pass through in training or en route to space flights since the original seven in the "Mercury" program in 1959.    Accidents in space or on launch pads have taken the lives of 17.
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ONE of Americaâs greatest unsung heroes, an astronaut who touched the stars yet barely scraped the surface of public recognition, is to retire.
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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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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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A FOUNDING father of space exploration is landing in Glasgow to help inspire science students.  In 1965 Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, now 73, became the first man to walk in space. He will be recalling his space adventures to help launch Careers Scotland's Festival of Science.
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Una astronauta restera' sul laboratorio orbitante