Memorial honors astronaut Cooper
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The surviving astronauts of the Mercury 7 offered tribute Friday to compatriot Gordon &quot;Gordo&quot; Cooper, who died Oct. 4. At a memorial gathering at Johnson Space Center in Houston, former US Sen.
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LOS ANGELES Oct. 4, 2004 - Gordon Cooper, who was the youngest and perhaps cockiest member of the original seven Mercury astronauts and set the space endurance record that helped clear the way for the first moon landing, has died.
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Aviation pioneer Burt Rutan has been fondly remembering his childhood hero - German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. The X-Prize victor recently hooked up with two surviving members of von Braun&#39;s V2 team
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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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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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The mother of a U.S. astronaut who has  been in space since October was killed when a freight train hit  her car at a railroad crossing near Chicago, police said on  Thursday.
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By BILL KACZOR    PENSACOLA, Fla.  -- A former dormitory converted to classrooms at the Pensacola Naval Air Station was dedicated Friday to two Columbia astronauts who were among the seven who died in the shuttle disaster Feb...
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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 JON W. GLASS  By Jon W. Glass  The Virginian-Pilot  HAMPTON  Some engineers at NASA Langley Research Center will be watching the space shuttle Atlantis' return to Earth with special interest.
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By Chicago Tribune  Feb. 8--Being an astronaut, even if it doesn't quite carry the romantic cachet of "The Right Stuff" era of the 1960s, is still one of those jobs that ignites the imagination.
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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
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Jim Newman, an Army captain during the Vietnam War, stared at the Bell UH-1 Huey Helicopter. "I left a lot of blood and part of my leg in that Huey," he said. Nearly four decades after escaping death, Newman was among dozens of veterans at a dedication ceremony Wednesday for a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit that pays tribute to the service and sacrifice of the nation's battle-worn men and women.
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The end of January marks a somber time for NASA with the anniversary of the three major tragedies in the history of U.S. spaceflight.
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A memorial was held Saturday for Jack Hensley, an American engineer who was beheaded by his captors in Iraq earlier this week. Hensley and two other engineers, Eugene Armstrong and Kenneth Bigley, were
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SUN VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 1  /PRNewswire/ -- On this day, the 4th anniversary of the Columbia Space Shuttle tragedy, Tower General Contractors has announced that it has been awarded the contract to build the Columbia Memorial Space Science & Learning Center in Downey California.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - People interested in an out-of-this-world post-death experience can "boldly go where no man has gone before" with a space memorial service that blasts their ashes into space.
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VENTURA, Calif. - Gordon Cooper, who as one of the original Mercury astronauts was a pioneer in human space exploration, has died.