Gordon Cooper, astronaut on final Mercury mission
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WASHINGTON Gordon Cooper, the astronaut who flew the last of the pioneering Mercury space missions and stayed aloft in a Gemini capsule long enough to demonstrate that a trip to the moon was feasible, died at his home in Ventura, California, NASA announced
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The Messenger spacecraft dashed past Mercury on Monday, getting a glance at the solar systemâs innermost planet, which it will eventually orbit for detailed studies.
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US astronaut Mike Fincke descended safely to Earth with two cosmonauts aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule late Saturday, Houston time, to end a six-month stay aboard the international space station.
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Gordon Cooper, the youngest and perhaps cockiest member of the original Mercury astronauts whose space endurance record cleared the way for manned flight to the moon, has died.
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Maxime Faget conceived and proposed the development of the one-man spacecraft used in Project Mercury, which put the first American astronauts into suborbital flight, then orbital flight
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HOUSTON -- Seven NASA astronauts will bid farewell to the International Space Station (ISS) Tuesday when their shuttle Atlantis undocks after a busy construction mission.
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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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But on that glorious day in May, 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world.
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On Monday, astronaut Gordon Cooper Jr., 77, died at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts.
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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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Hours after undocking from the international space station Tuesday, Atlantis' seven astronauts finished a final inspection of the space shuttle to make sure its heat shield was ready to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.
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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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After hitching a ride on the back of NASA&#39;s Cassini orbiter for seven years through more than 2 billion miles of space, the European Space Agency&#39;s Huygens space probe is finally stepping out on its own.
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VENTURA, Calif. - Gordon Cooper, who as one of the original Mercury astronauts was a pioneer in human space exploration, has died.
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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.
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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."
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Scientists are eagerly awaiting new images and observations Monday when a NASA spacecraft flies over Mercury in the first visit in almost 33 years to the mysterious small planet.