Tribute to an unsung space hero
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Visiting my neighbor Max Faget at his home on the banks of Dickinson Bayou here in rural Galveston County, Texas, was like a trip into a space museum.
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As a retired pilot himself, Roy W. Roush knows a good aviator holds the elevation steady while gliding through the clouds. In the 15 years he was friends with space pioneer Leroy Gordon Cooper, Roush flew
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MOJAVE, California -- Nobody can claim that Burt Rutan, the innovative aerospace designer, doesnât have his head in the cloudsâ¦and his eyes focused on the stars.
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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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When Sean OâKeefe took the top NASA job in 2001, the space community didnât know quite what to make of him. A self-described ânumbers guyâ, he was a management expert and his former
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L. Gordon Cooper Jr., one of the seven astronauts selected by the US space program for NASA&#39;s first space project in 1959, has died at his Ventura, California home.
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KOROLYOV, Russia -- A U.S. astronaut and his Ru
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Gordon Cooper, who as one of the original Mercury astronauts was a pioneer in human space exploration, has died. He was 77.
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Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper was remembered Friday by NASA (news - web sites) officials and fellow space pioneers as &quot;not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut.
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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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(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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The film industry salutes the legendary actor.
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âWe were saddened to hear of the death of Christopher Reeve. He has been such an effective advocate of stem cell research, as well as being an extremely courageous individual who never lost hope that the
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The renowned physicist has always had a hankering for space travel. He'll start with a brief zero-gravity flight in April. By the Associated Press.
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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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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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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