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Gordon Cooper
 
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Gordon Cooper |
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Born on: |
6 Mar 1927 |
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Join NASA in: |
2 Apr 1959 |
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Current status: |
Died 4 Oct 2004 |
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Spaceflight |
Position |
Date |
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Mercury 9 |
Pilot |
15.05. - 16.05.1963 |
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Gemini 5 |
Cmdr |
21.08. - 29.08.1965 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
On May 15-16, 1963, he piloted the "Faith 7" spacecraft on
a 22-orbit mission which concluded the operational phase
of Project Mercury. During the 34 hours and 20 minutes of
flight, Faith 7 attained an apogee of 166 statue miles and
a speed of 17,546 miles per hour and traveled 546,167
statue miles.
Cooper served as command pilot of the 8-day 120-revolution
Gemini 5 mission which began on August 21, 1965. It was on
this flight that he and pilot Charles Conrad established a
new space endurance record by traveling a distance of
3,312,993 miles in an elapsed time of 190 hours and 56
minutes. Cooper also became the first man to make a second
orbital flight and thus won for the United States the lead
in man-hours in space by accumulating a total of 225 hours
and 15 minutes.
He served as backup command pilot for Gemini 12 and as
backup commander for Apollo X.
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