Last of Mercury Astronauts Remember &#39;Gordo&#39; Cooper
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The last of the seven Project Mercury astronauts who pioneered US space exploration in the 1960s remembered one of their own as a fearless pilot with the &quot;right stuff&quot; in
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The crews of the International Space Station and the space shuttle Atlantis had their last full day of joint operations Saturday.
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The NASA turbojet notoriously known as the "vomit comet" for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight Friday. Few among the two dozen seasoned passengers aboard got sick.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- This week&#39;s trip to the international space station will be the cosmonauts&#39; first flight in a Soyuz spacecraft -- a rupture with the 30-year tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule.
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HOUSTON The NASA four-engine turbojet notoriously known as the &quot;vomit comet&quot; for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight today.
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The NASA (news - web sites) turbojet notoriously known as the &quot;vomit comet&quot; for its use in training astronauts for weightlessness made its final flight Friday.
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HOUSTON - The seven astronauts of NASA's shuttle Atlantis will say adieu to their counterparts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday as they prepare to head home after delivering a new European lab.
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Space station astronauts Gennady Padalka and American Mike Fincke are scheduled to make the final spacewalks of their mission today.
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In an emotional ceremony just a few miles from where Columbia should have landed five years ago Friday, NASA officials, astronauts, schoolchildren and family members of the lost shuttle crew gathered to remember the seven who died while returning from space.
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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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The Atlantis crew of seven examined the shuttle&#39;s heat shield one last time in preparation for returning to Earth, after a successful two-week mission to the International Space Station.
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(10/05/04)-- A fellow Mercury astronaut is mourning the death of Gordon Cooper Monday at his home in Ventura, California. Wally Schirra told Associated Press Radio
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The shuttle Discovery astronauts bid an emotional farewell to their colleagues aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday and headed into their spaceship to prepare for the journey home.
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America&#39;s earliest space explorers bid farewell Friday to fellow Mercury 7 astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, whose toothy grin became a symbol of confidence and graceful daring as his country struggled to open a new frontier.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - In a routine familiar to travelers on Earth, shuttle astronauts were spending Tuesday packing their things, indulging in their surroundings one last day and making sure their vehicle is ready for the ride home.
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LOS ANGELES - Gordon Cooper, the last astronaut to take flight during NASA's pioneering Mercury program, has died. He was 77...
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Rather unflattering NASA Image of the Day We're not sure what John Glenn will make of it, but NASA's Image of the Day is currently showing a rather unflattering 1960 snap of the seven original Mercury astronauts:â¦