Gordon Cooper, 1 of 1st astronauts
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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.
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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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Monday night will mark the beginning of Europeâs space exploration, as a tiny spacecraft will start orbiting the moon. On Monday, SMART-1 (the acronym stands for Small Missions for Advanced Research and
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Leroy Gordon Cooper, one of the nation&#39;s first astronauts who once set a space endurance record by traveling more than 3.3 million miles aboard Gemini 5 in 1965, died on Monday, NASA said.
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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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Reacting swiftly to the Soviet success with Sputnik I, the United States makes its first foray into space a highly successful one.
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The six STS-115 astronauts entered the International Space Station for the first time at 8:30 a.m. EDT Monday, joining the station's Expedition 13 crew.
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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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Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis are preparing for the mission's first spacewalk.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery woke up to The Beatles on Sunday, their first morning in space, where the first order of business will be to make sure their ship wasn't damaged during launch.
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By MATT LEINGANG  COLUMBUS, Ohio - The country is not getting its money's worth out of the international space station, John Glenn said Tuesday, the 45th anniversary of the day he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - Astronauts assigned to  NASA's first space shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia  disaster said on Friday they are confident mistakes and  technical problems that led to that accident are in the past.
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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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Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and American astronaut Mike Fincke had been in space since April. While in space they carried out four space walks, including one crucial mission to repair
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French doctors set off to carry out the first operation on a human being under zero-gravity.
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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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Fifty years ago today, the 70-foot (21-meter) tall Juno 1 rocket, a modified Redstone missile, launched the Explorer I satellite, marking the first U.S. built payload to enter Earth orbit. Three of the booster's four stages fell into the ocean while the fourth, which was used to boost Explorer I's velocity, entered orbit behind the satellite.