Astronaut Gordon Cooper Dies
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Summary - (Oct 5, 2004) Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who piloted missions in both the Mercury and Gemini programs, died on Monday at his home in Ventura, California; he was 77.
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Bob Evans, an IBM computer scientist who helped to develop the modern mainframe computer, died Thursday. He was 77. Evans died of heart failure at his at his home in the San Francisco suburb of Hillsborough, his son Evan told the Associated Press.
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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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By SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press writer  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 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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RENO, Nevada  - Amid a massive search effort to find missing aviator-adventurer Steve Fossett, three pilots have died in as many days at an unrelated aviation race competition about 80 miles north of the search area.
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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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By JOE STINEBAKER HOUSTON - An astronaut from the space shuttle Atlantis collapsed twice Friday during a welcome home ceremony, a wobbly return that officials attributed to the adjustment from 12 days at zero gravity.
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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 mother of a U.S. astronaut who has  been in space since October was killed when a freight train hit  her car at a railroad crossing near Chicago, police said on  Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES Oct. 4, 2004 - Gordon Cooper, who was the youngest and perhaps cockiest member of the original seven Mercury astronauts and set the space endurance record that helped clear the way for the first moon landing, has died.
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NASA -- Gordon Cooper Jr., the astronaut who piloted the sixth and last flight of the Mercury program and later commanded Gemini 5, died earlier today at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was 77 years old...
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On May 15, 1963, Gordon Cooper piloted the Faith 7 capsule and circled the globe 22 times in 34 hours and 20 minutes. It was the last flight of NASA&#39;s Mercury program, but it
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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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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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Dr. Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in California said.
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GORDON Cooper, one of the original Mercury astronauts who pioneered the US role in outer space, died Monday at his home in Ventura, California, NASA announced.