Editorial: Cooper got America going in space
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L. Gordon Cooper was the real deal. He and his six colleagues - known as the Mercury Seven - inaugurated an age and captivated a generation of Americans.
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Thrill-seekers looking to blast into space from the U.S. would need to be informed in writing of serious risks &#151; including death &#151; and promise not to sue the government under the first-ever rules for commercial space travel by American companies.
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Floating free above Earth and carrying out an experiment in space has long been the preserve of orbiting travelers, but at taxpayer's expense.
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For many, Sputnik was proof that Americaâs science education, had fallen behind. But, since then, how far have we come?
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How NASA turned to Americaâs basement brainstormers, workbench concocters and garage tinkerers to revive the space program.
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By Greg AutryChina recently shot down an aging Chinese weather satellite -- a signal that China will not abide by the doctrine of U.S. space superiority outlined in the new National Space Policy released in October by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Earlier this month, the US space program lost one of its most colorful pioneers - Leroy Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; Cooper Jr., one of the Mercury 7 astronauts, whose exploits and foibles
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By Alice Rawsthorn One glance at the model rockets, space magazines and NASA knickknacks strewn across Marc Newson's desk tells you that he is a space freak.
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In a scene from the film &quot;The Right Stuff, sunlight streams through the window of astronaut Leroy Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; Cooper&#39;s Faith 7 spacecraft as it reaches orbit.
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With a little help from NASA, students from McNair High School - which is named for an astronaut â-ight play a role in future space exploration.
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TOOELE, UTAH -- ItÂs not    the kind of "breaking news" that NASA wanted.
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Science & environment: The countdown is on for the first regular space tourists to rocket into space
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Without a separate vote or even a debate, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) has managed to deliver to a delighted NASA enough money to forge ahead on a plan that would reshape U.S. space policy for decades to come.
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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 FRANZEN  Three years ago, when the Bush administration announced plans to send a manned mission to Mars, a base on the moon was a part of those plans.
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It may seem, from a distance, just one small step. But in a few months, it should prove to have been a giant leap. NASA plans today to roll out from an assembly facility near New Orleans a redesigned fuel
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From the dawn of the space program, America's astronauts have been treated like stars and indoctrinated in NASA's can-do, failure-is-not-an-option ethos.