Gordon Cooper
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1929-01-01
- Died
- 2004-10-04
- Works
- 25
Top works
- Treasure-Trove, Pirates' Gold
- Isles of Romance and Mystery
- A fortnight in Israel
- PONS Business-Sprachführer, Englisch
- Motoring Holidays Abroad
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Film & TV
Acting · Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States.
Known for
- The Phenomenon — Self - NASA Astronaut (archive footage)2020
- Apollo: The Forgotten Films — Self (archive footage)2019
- Apollo: Missions to the Moon — Self (archive footage)2019
- Dan Aykroyd Unplugged On UFOs — Self2005
- Out of the Blue — Self2003
- The Real Men with 'The Right Stuff' — Self2003
- Project Gemini: Bridge to the Moon — Self2003
- Close Encounters: Proof of Alien Contact — Self - Astronaut2000
- Rocket's Red Glare — Gordon Cooper2000
- UFO — Self1999
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
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- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 38,885x
- limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
· 2015 · cited 35,737x
- Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications.
· 1979 · cited 34,209x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,698x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 29,465x
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Key facts
- Born
- Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. , ( 1927-03-06 ) March 6, 1927, Shawnee, Oklahoma , U.S.
- Died
- October 4, 2004 (2004-10-04) (aged 77), Ventura, California , U.S.
- Education
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa , University of Maryland, College Park , Air University ( BS )
- Spouses
- Trudy B. Olson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1970 ) Suzan Taylor ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1972 )
- Awards
- Legion of Merit Distinguished Flying Cross (2) NASA Distinguished Service Medal NASA Exceptional Service Medal
- Rank
- Colonel , USAF
- Time in space
- 9d 9h 14m
- Selection
- NASA Group 1 (1959)
- Missions
- Mercury-Atlas 9 , Gemini 5
- Retirement
- July 31, 1970
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1929
- Died
- 4 October 2004
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Mercury Seven
- Family name
- Cooper
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Shawnee
- Place of death
- Ventura
- Occupation
- racing automobile driver
- Employer
- NASA
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States. Cooper learned to fly as a child, and after service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1949. After serving as a fighter pilot, he qualified as a test pilot in 1956 and was selected as an astronaut in 1959.
In 1963, Cooper piloted the longest and last Mercury spaceflight, Mercury-Atlas 9. During that 34-hour mission, he became the first American to spend an entire day in space, the first to sleep in space, and the last American launched on an entirely solo orbital mission. Despite a series of severe equipment failures, he completed the mission under manual control, guiding his spacecraft, which he named Faith 7, to a splashdown just 6.4 kilometres (4 mi) ahead of the recovery ship. Cooper became the first person to make a second orbital flight when he flew as command pilot of Gemini 5 in 1965. Along with pilot Pete Conrad, he set a new space endurance record by traveling 5,331,745 kilometres (3,312,993 mi) in 190 hours and 56 minutes—just short of eight days—showing that astronauts could survive in space for the length of time necessary to go from the Earth to the Moon and back.
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