Celebrating The &quot;Right Stuff&quot; -- Mercury Astronaut Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; ...
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As fellow astronauts, other friends and loved ones gathered in Houston yesterday to honor US &quot;frontiersman&quot; Captain Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.
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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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By BETH GORHAM  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (CP) - Canadian astronaut Steve MacLean blasted off for space on Saturday, his broad grin as he entered the shuttle a sure sign of how thrilled he was that Atlantis was finally good to go.  The shuttle lifted off at 11:15 a.m.
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NASA mourns the loss of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, who rocketed into space in his Faith 7 capsule on May 15, 1963 (above, right).
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By Davin White  davinwhite@wvgazette.com  Dan Cosgrove enjoyed his Space Camp experience last year. This year, he'll take some friends along.
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Spacecraft design pioneer Maxime Faget has died at the age of 83. Faget is credited for conceiving Project Mercury, which put the first US astronauts into space, and was involved in the design of every US manned spacecraft afterward.
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_ One of NASA&#39;s first astronauts, Oklahoma native L. Gordon Cooper Jr., was remembered at the Johnson Space Center as ``not too bad of a water skier, not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut.
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I applaud Burt Rutan and the SpaceShipOne team for their miraculous achievement of winning the Ansari X Prize. As an astronaut, I understand well the challenges they faced in reaching suborbital space.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 19.  Imagine a list of history&#39;s greatest astronauts without any mention of Americans. History&#39;s greatest philosophers without any mention of the Greeks. Absurd. But here&#39;s one more: a commemoration of 50 years of rock&#39;n&#39;roll ...
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LOS ANGELES - Gordon Cooper, who was the youngest and perhaps cockiest member of the original Mercury astronauts and set the space endurance record that helped clear the way for the first moon landing, has died. He was 77...
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By now you've heard the jokes. Astronut. All the wrong stuff. One giant leap to the nut house. Huggies with the astronaut fit.
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Last week's spectacular barrel rolls by SpaceShipOne looked a lot more frightening than they were, the project leader says. Also: There was a forlorn face in the crowd.... Sponsors line up behind effort....  New Mexico wants a spaceport.... and more. By Dan Brekke.
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The space program may be troubled now, but it did produce some cutting-edge breakthroughs in astronaut comfort. Inside Lisa Nowakâs travel wear.
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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.
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When a privately built rocket plane soared into space earlier this month, astronaut wannabes were giddy with the hope that they&#39;d finally make it off the planet.
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Space is the one frontier that&#39;s out of reach to the average person, but the feeling of space travel is now a little less elusive.
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thatshortkid writes &quot;The Washington Times is reporting on Brazil&#39;s first successful space launch. Since it is closer to the equator, the task of getting up to space is easier, meaning much more cargo room over fuel.