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Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was born on March 6, 1927, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, [1] the only child of Leroy Gordon Cooper Sr. and his wife, Hattie Lee née Herd. [2] His mother was a school teacher. His father enlisted in the United States Navy during World War I, and served on the presidential yacht USS Mayflower. After the war, Cooper Sr. completed ...
Leroy Cooper may refer to: Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (1927–2004), American aerospace engineer, pilot and astronaut Leroy Cooper (musician) (1928–2009), American jazz and R&B saxophonist
Leroy Gordon (Gordo) Cooper Jr. Shawnee, Oklahoma, March 6, 1927 October 4, 2004: Cooper joined the USAF in 1949, and flew F-84 Thunderjets and F-86 Sabres in Germany for four years. He graduated from the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, with Class 56D in 1956.
Leroy, meanwhile, partners with Flora, which helps him strategically. He knows if he and wife Kam pair up and land in the bottom, “the house would definitely try to vote us in.”
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Bradley Cooper was feeling the love at the Los Angeles premiere of his film, Maestro. The 48-year-old actor and director attended the event with his co-star, Carey Mulligan, as well as his and ...
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Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then a United States Air Force major.