Air Force pilot Gordon Cooper became an expert on the Redstone Rocket that would launch Mercury astronauts on short training flights.

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Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad were to spend a record eight days in space.

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They were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper,John Glenn,Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra,Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.

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In Studio 8H (a decade before "Saturday Night Live"), we caught a glimpse of the NBC Space Center being readied for covering the launch a few days later of Gemini 5 astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad.

WSJ: Remembering a time before 'Tonight' left New York

Even the surviving Mercury astronauts--a plumpish Wally Schirra, a leathery Scott Carpenter, a frail Gordon Cooper--were there, showing the colors the way they always did when a member of their elite fraternity was setting out on a mission that would kill him or not, but in either event would provide him with that transcendent thrill he got nowhere else.

CNN: Victory Lap

The dichotomy is frankly stated in a new book by two fervent apostles of modernity, Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor.

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