Gordon Cooper, astronaut on final Mercury mission
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WASHINGTON Gordon Cooper, the astronaut who flew the last of the pioneering Mercury space missions and stayed aloft in a Gemini capsule long enough to demonstrate that a trip to the moon was feasible, died at his home in Ventura, California, NASA announced
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The first pictures taken by the Messenger probe as it passed Mercury on Monday start to arrive at Earth.
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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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Beams back images of first approach NASA's Messenger yesterday successfully completed its first fly-by of Mercury, passing roughly 124 miles (200km) above the surface of the planet.â¦
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The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex prepared Friday for the last spacewalk of their joint mission, an outing to attach science experiments to the outside of the new Columbus lab.
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The US space probe soared over Mercury on Monday on a mission to unlock the mysteries of the smallest planet of the solar system which was last visited in 1975, NASA said.
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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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By Jeff Postelwait World Staff Writer  Sending a message to mission control, Cmdr. Garrett Pool asked for the countdown to commence as the five-member team of the Hawkings Explorer was ready to begin its mission to Mars. "We are ready for liftoff," Garrett said.
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Space station astronauts Gennady Padalka and American Mike Fincke are scheduled to make the final spacewalks of their mission today.
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But on that glorious day in May, 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. Twenty-two complete orbits around the world.
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On Monday, astronaut Gordon Cooper Jr., 77, died at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts.
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The shuttle Atlantis astronauts  completed their work on the International Space Station on  Friday with a third and final spacewalk to put the finishing  touches on a new power module and set up gear for NASA's next  service call.
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US astronauts on Sunday completed their fourth and final spacewalk of the Atlantis mission after repairing the shuttle for its trip home later this week, NASA said.
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Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper was remembered Friday by NASA officials and fellow space pioneers as "not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut."
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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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Separated from the international space station Saturday, their heat shielding inspected one last time for damage and all their goals accomplished, the astronauts of the space shuttle Discovery were ready to come home.
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Gordon Cooper, one of seven original US astronauts, died yesterday at his home in Ventura, Calif., at age 77. In the 1960s, with the nation determined to prevail in a space race with the Soviet