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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 ...
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.
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 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
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Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., also noted as Gordo Cooper, was born 6 March 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and was an American astronaut. Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury , the first manned-space effort by the United States .
Gordon Cooper being hoisted into the recovery helicopter. Seventeen experiments were planned, with one cancelled, as it involved photography of the REP. Experiment D-1 involved the crew photographing celestial objects, and D-6 was a ground photography experiment.
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