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Há 2 dias · Gordon Cooper made the last flight of Project Mercury with Mercury-Atlas 9 on May 15, 1963. His flight onboard Faith 7 set another U.S. endurance record with a 34-hour and 19 minute flight duration, and 22 completed orbits. This mission marks the last time an American was launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission.
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- Big Joe 1, September 9, 1959
- Mercury-Redstone 3, May 5, 1961
- NASA
9 de mai. de 2024 · Gordon Cooper details his first hand experience with the UFO / UAP phenomena. Source: Disclosure Project.
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- Skeptic’s Skywatch
Há 6 dias · On May 15, 1963, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on the sixth and final crewed flight of the Mercury Program. This was also the last time a NASA astronaut launched on a solo mission to...
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- Dailymotion
Há 3 dias · The final voyage of Project Mercury, and the most recent successful launch of humans aboard a Mighty Atlas, came with Faith 7 and the day-long, 22-orbit mission of astronaut Gordon Cooper. But with the spate of military Atlas-F failures (another had catastrophically malfunctioned in November 1962), all eyes were tightly focused on ...
Há 2 dias · Mitchell's commander on the Apollo 10 backup crew had been another of the original seven, Gordon Cooper, who had tentatively been scheduled to command Apollo 13, but according to author Andrew Chaikin, his casual attitude toward training resulted in him being not selected.
Há 1 dia · The identities of the seven were announced at a press conference at Dolley Madison House in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 1959: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. In The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe wrote that Glenn "came out of it as tops among seven very fair-haired boys.
Há 1 dia · August 10, 1967. Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut and aquanaut. He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for NASA 's Project Mercury in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth ...
