Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper Dies at 77
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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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William Siri, a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who helped lead the first American expedition to reach Mount Everest's summit, has died at age 85.
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Dr. Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in California said.
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By Diana Moskovitz, The Miami Herald  May 27--After years as a NASA engineer, Earl Driscoll left the space program and never looked back. He was content taking over the family janitorial business -- a job where his mistakes didn't cost lives.
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Gordon Cooper Jr., one of the original seven astronauts who became space pioneers and national celebrities, died Monday at his home in Ventura, Calif.
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Gordon Hinckley, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, dies, aged 97.
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LOS ANGELES - 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. He was 77...
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The last of the seven Project Mercury  astronauts who pioneered U.S. space exploration in the 1960s  remembered one of their own as a fearless pilot with the "right  stuff" in an emotional memorial ceremony on Friday for Gordon  Cooper.
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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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Paul Gleason, who played the go-to bad guy in &quot;Trading Places&quot; and the angry high school principal in &quot;The Breakfast Club,&quot; has died. He was 67.
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NASA, the American space agency responsible for putting a man on the moon but who also lost seven astronauts in its 2003 Columbia Shuttle voyage and seven astronauts in its 1986 Challenger take-off, says the first space shuttle mission since the disaster
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accident nine years ago made him a worldwide advocate for embryonic stem cell research and gave him a hate-love relationship with the Christian community, died Sunday of heart failure, his family and publicist announced Monday, October 11.
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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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Thomas M. Donahue, one of the country&#39;s leading space and planetary scientists and a pioneer of space exploration, died Saturday of complications following heart surgery.
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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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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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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...