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	Gordon Cooper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gordon realized that these men, who on a regular basis have seen experimental aircraft flying and landing around them as part of their job of filming those aircraft, were clearly worked up and unnerved.
		Cooper achieved an altitude of 165.9 statute miles (267 km) at apogee.
		Gordon also worked with the Imagineering program at Disney and was involved with the Advanced Technology Group for a number of years, where he had a number of interesting experiences which only backed up his belief in intelligent life from another planet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gordon_Cooper (1244 words)

	Astronaut Gordon Cooper talks to the UN
		Astronaut Gordon Cooper's Message to the UN "I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which are a little more technically advanced than we are on Earth.
		Cooper was not fortunate enough to be outside at the time of this incredible encounter, but he did see the films as soon as they were rushed through the development process.
		Cooper no doubt expected to get a reply in a few weeks' time as to what his men had seen and photographed, but there was no word, and the movie vanished - never to surface again....
	www.mufor.org /cooper.htm (1371 words)

	NASA - Gordon Cooper Memorialized
		Cooper, who piloted the sixth and last flight of the Mercury program and later commanded Gemini 5, died Oct. 4 at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was 77 years old.
		Cooper earned a bachelor's degree at the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1956, then completed test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. He served as a test pilot there until he was selected as a Mercury astronaut.
		Cooper was a director of a number of other organizations, most specializing in energy, advanced electronics systems, efficient homes, boats and marine systems and equipment.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/space/features/cooper_obit.html (983 words)

	USATODAY.com - Gordon Cooper, NASA Mercury pioneer, dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gordon Cooper was one of the original Mercury 7 and later commanded the Gemini V mission.
		Cooper was the youngest and perhaps cockiest member of the original seven Mercury astronauts.
		Cooper, who took a nap in the capsule while waiting for Faith 7 to launch, was the last astronaut to orbit Earth alone.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2004-10-04-cooper-obit_x.htm (930 words)

	GORDON COOPER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		COOPER, L. Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, on March 6, 1927.
		In April1959 Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., was selected as one of the original seven Mercury astronauts.
		In 1969 Cooper served as backup commander to fellow Oklahoman astronaut Thomas Stafford on Apollo 10.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/coop.htm (537 words)

	Gordon Cooper - The Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cooper was also honored by a ticker tape parade in New York City on May 22, 1963.
		Gordon Cooper's father was the person responsible for introducing him to aviation.
		Cooper was forced to "fly by the seat of his pants" without the aid of computers.
	www.gctech.org /about/gcman.htm (1129 words)

	Interview with Gordon Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		COOPER: It got so bad that there were deliberately falsified tapes of communications with the astronauts, where UFO material was simply edited in.
		COOPER: Yes, several days in a row we sighted groups of metallic, saucer-shaped vehicles at great altitudes over the base, and we tried to get close to them, but they were able to change direction faster than our fighters.
		COOPER: People want to know what's going on in the world around them, and I think they're prepared for the truth, whatever it is. A lot of people don't believe anything about UFOs because of the absurd treatises that have come out on the subject.
	www.holman.net /ufo/archives/mfiles/Interview_with_Gordon_Cooper.html (512 words)

	40th Anniversary of Mercury 7: L. Gordon Cooper
		Cooper replied that he was definitely sold on the program and that he very much wanted to become an astronaut.
		Another task that Cooper was responsible for was to serve as chairman of an Emergency Egress Committee which was responsible for working out procedures for saving the astronaut in the event of an emergency on the pad.
		Cooper's first flight began on May 15, 1963, when he was launched as the pilot of MA-9, the last Mercury mission.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/40thmerc7/cooper.htm (1891 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Gordon Cooper, pioneering Mercury program astronaut, dies at 77
		LOS ANGELES – Gordon Cooper, the youngest and perhaps cockiest member of the original Mercury astronauts whose space endurance record cleared the way for manned flight to the moon, has died.
		Cooper took a nap on the launch pad then became the first astronaut to sleep in space during the mission.
		Cooper also authored the 2000 book "Leap of Faith" in which he discussed NASA's early days, his experiences on the Mercury and Gemini missions and his belief in extraterrestrial intelligence.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20041004-2021-ca-obit-cooper.html (884 words)

	NASA - NASA Mourns Loss of Original Mercury 7 Astronaut Gordon Cooper
		Cooper piloted the sixth and last flight of the Mercury program and later commanded Gemini V. "As one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, Gordon Cooper was one of the faces of America's fledgling space program.
		Cooper was born on March 6, 1927, in Shawnee, Okla. He served in the Marine Corps in 1945 and 1946.
		Cooper was backup command pilot of Gemini 12, launched in November 1966.
	www.nasa.gov /home/hqnews/2004/oct/HQ_04335_cooper_dies.html (932 words)

	Astronaut Gordon Cooper Dies
		On Monday, astronaut Gordon Cooper Jr., 77, died at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts.
		Cooper was backup command pilot of Gemini 12, launched in November 1965.
		Cooper left NASA and retired from the Air Force as a colonel on July 31, 1970.
	www.avweb.com /newswire/10_41b/briefs/188297-1.html (163 words)

	Universe Today - Astronaut Gordon Cooper Dies
		Cooper was the youngest of the original 7 Mercury astronauts, and his mission on May 15, 1963 - the final one in the Mercury program - lasted more than 34 hours and 22 orbits.
		Cooper and Pete Conrad flew the third flight of the Gemini program in 1965, and stayed in space for 191 hours, establishing a new space endurance record.
		Gordon Cooper Jr., the astronaut who piloted the sixth and last flight of the Mercury program and later commanded Gemini 5, died earlier today at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was 77 years old.
	universetoday.com /am/publish/astronaut_gordon_cooper_dies.html?5102004 (1203 words)

	In Search of Gordon Cooper's UFOs
		But in March 1978, the same Gordon Cooper addressed a UN committee on somebody else's space vehicles: aliens from space were flying to Earth on exploration voyages of their own.
		As recounted in Penthouse ("Cosmic Coverup" by Tony Scaduto, October 1978), "Gordon Cooper says the film that he knows was taken of a UFO landing near the astronauts' training base in California has disappeared somewhere within official vaults....(It was) a film of the UFO that his men photographed, a film that has keen suppressed.".
		Cooper had nothing to do with the incident (he was not connected with the film crew in any official capacity, and they had never heard of him) but was only an accidental bystander.
	www.zip.com.au /~psmith/cooper.html (6843 words)

	collectSPACE - news - "Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper dies"
		Cooper was selected by NASA in 1959 as one of the original seven Mercury astronauts.
		Cooper was assigned in the Marines on guard duty in Washington, D.C. He was serving with the Presidential Honor Guard in Washington when he was released from duty along with other Marine reservists.
		Cooper resigned from NASA and the Air Force, at the rank of Colonel, on July 31, 1970, to form Gordon Cooper and Associates, an aviation and aerospace consulting firm based in Hialeah, Florida.
	www.collectspace.com /news/news-100404a.html (1171 words)

	Gordon Cooper
		Gordon Cooper, on one of the first extraterrestrial voyages of human history, was watching his fabulous blue, green and white home pass beneath him, starkly contrasted against the tableau of fl, bottomless space.
		One day, Cooper saw "flights of fighters flying by in the same sort of formation we flew, moving east to west." Cooper and his squadron mates were scrambled to go take a look; these objects represented a very real threat during these tense early days of the Cold War.
		Bell asked Cooper directly what he thought about the famous Martian "face," the shadowy picture taken by the latest Mars probe that many claim to be evidence of previous Martian civilization.
	www.aerosphere.com /html/gordon_cooper.shtml (621 words)

	Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper, 77 (washingtonpost.com)
		Cooper's signal achievements was serving as pilot of the Faith 7 spacecraft in a 22-orbit mission in May 1963.
		Cooper found it necessary to fly his capsule to an ocean landing without the assistance of the usual variety of automated devices.
		Cooper took an early interest in flying, and at 7 years old he took the controls from time to time of a biplane flown by his father.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A7362-2004Oct4.html (863 words)

	Astronaut Gordon Cooper dies at 77 - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - October 05, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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.
		Cooper became a hero to a generation of Americans in the early 1960s as the country tried to catch the Soviet Union in the space race.
		Cooper's rambunctious attitude was immortalized in Tom Wolfe's book "The Right Stuff" and the 1983 movie of the same name, in which he was portrayed by Dennis Quaid.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20041005-013034-9151r.htm (588 words)

	Cooper
		Gordon Cooper was named as the pilot for Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) 1-day orbital mission slated for April 1963.
		Gordon Cooper and Alan Shepard, pilot and backup pilot, respectively, for the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) mission, received a 1-day briefing on all experiments approved for the flight.
		Gordon Cooper and Alan Shepard, MA-9 pilot and backup pilot, visited the Morehead Planetarium in North Carolina to review the celestial sphere model, practice star navigation, and observe a simulation of the flashing light beacon (an experiment planned for the MA-9 mission).
	www.astronautix.com /astros/cooper.htm (3595 words)

	Astronaut Cooper dies at 77 - Space News - MSNBC.com
		Cooper piloted the final flight of the Mercury program, the United States’ first manned spaceflight program that had the primary goal of putting a man in orbit around Earth.
		On May 15, 1963, Cooper piloted the Faith 7 spacecraft on a 22-orbit mission that concluded the operational phase of the Project Mercury.
		“Gordon Cooper’s legacy is permanently woven into the fabric of the Kennedy Space Center as a Mercury Seven astronaut,” Kennedy Space Center Director Jim Kennedy said.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6180304 (530 words)

	Interview with Gordon Cooper - Michael Lindemann
		Cooper was going to go to the moon, but Alan Shepherd went instead, and then the Apollo program was cancelled.
		Cooper was convinced by 1978 that these visitors, most of them at least, were friendly.
		Gordon said the voice belonged to a person who wanted Moser to provide lots of basic information about earth and humans, so that this visitor could begin to adjust to living here.
	www.v-j-enterprises.com /astro5.html (1856 words)

	CNN.com - Space pioneer Gordon Cooper dies - Oct 4, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cooper, an Oklahoma native who entered the Marine Corps after graduating from high school in 1945, later became an elite Air Force test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base in California, where he became fascinated with the space program.
		On May 15 and 16, 1963, Cooper piloted the Faith 7 spacecraft on a 22-orbit mission that concluded the operational phase of Project Mercury.
		In his post-NASA career, Cooper became known as an outspoken believer in UFOs and charged that the government was covering up its knowledge of extraterrestrial activity.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/10/04/gordon.cooper (650 words)

	Former Astronaut Gordon Cooper Interviewed in National Enquirer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cooper said he first encountered UFOs as a military pilot in Germany in the early 1950s, when unidentified craft were spotted over an air base.
		In 1957, Cooper was one of an elite band of test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base in California, in charge of several advanced projects, including the installation of a precision landing system.
		Cooper revealed he's convinced an alien craft crashed at Roswell, N. Mex., in 1947 and aliens were discovered in the wreckage.
	www.ufomind.com /misc/1997/jan/d11-001.shtml (717 words)

	L. Gordon Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, after graduating high school, enlisted in the Marine Corp. He was assigned to the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS), and later served with the Presidential Honor Guard in Washington DC.
		Cooper actually had the opportunity to fly on May 15, 1963 as pilot for MA-9, named the Faith 7.
		That was the last mission Cooper ever flew, but he remained with NASA in other functions.
	www.american.edu /IRVINE/sarahg/cooper.htm (457 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper gone at age 77
		Astronaut Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, a veteran of NASA's Mercury and Gemini programs that paved the way for the Apollo moon landings, died today at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was 77 and his death came 47 years to the day after the space age began with the launch of the Russian Sputnik satellite.
		Cooper blasted off in his Faith 7 capsule atop an Atlas rocket on May 15, 1963, completing 22 orbits and becoming the first American to sleep in orbit before returning to Earth the next day.
		Cooper received an Army commission after three years at the University of Hawaii, but he transferred his commission to the Air Force and began flight training in 1949.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0410/04cooper (1645 words)

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