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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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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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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Family members of the astronauts who died aboard the space shuttle Columbia watched as officials dedicated a granite memorial to their loved ones Tuesday, the second anniversary of the accident that killed the shuttle's seven-member crew.
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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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Pioneering astronaut Gordon Cooper has died in California, at age 77. He was one of the seven Mercury astronauts who led the way in the exploration of space.
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Astronauts on the International Space  Station and visiting space shuttle Atlantis said goodbye on  Monday as they closed the hatch between their two ships in  preparation for the shuttle&#39;s departure on Tuesday.
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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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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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By Joel Thurtell, Detroit Free Press  May 27--What impressed me most about these astronauts was their seriousness.   With "Roger this" and "Check that" on their handheld radios, they could have been live at Cape Canaveral.
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Daniel M. Tani's 90-year-old mother died in an auto accident this week, but he has no way of getting home until late January. He must grieve from more than 200 miles away Â in orbit, aboard the international space station.
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NASA&#39;s most experienced astronaut, John Young, was honored by NASA Tuesday night at the National Air &amp; Space Museum for his 42 years of service as he prepares to retire.
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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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By Al Neuharth  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- This gateway to the universe has had 322 astronauts pass through in training or en route to space flights since the original seven in the "Mercury" program in 1959.    Accidents in space or on launch pads have taken the lives of 17.
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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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After a journey of seven years and billions of miles together, NASA&#39;s Cassini orbiter and ESA&#39;s Huygens probe have finally gone their separate ways.
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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.