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Gordon Cooper, Astronaut, Dies, Reports NASA
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Posted on 10/04/2004 3:59:59 PM PDT by good_fight

Gordon Cooper, one of the nation's first astronauts on the Mercury and Gemini missions, has died, NASA confirms.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronaut; faith7; gemini; gordo; gordocooper; gordoncooper; mercury; nasa; obituary; space
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To: RaceBannon

http://news.google.com/news?q=gordon%20cooper&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn


21 posted on 10/04/2004 4:22:23 PM PDT by Rebelbase ("We will crush Al Qaeda"....Silky Pony)
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To: good_fight

22 posted on 10/04/2004 4:23:00 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
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To: good_fight

BTTT


23 posted on 10/04/2004 4:23:00 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak (Stop the open borders death cult)
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To: quesera

"and on that day he flew farther then anybody else" from the right stiff

god speed Gordo


24 posted on 10/04/2004 4:23:21 PM PDT by rang1995
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To: RaceBannon

They had a breaking news banner that is now down. Here's a link to an article now up:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/10/04/gordon.cooper/index.html


25 posted on 10/04/2004 4:23:35 PM PDT by good_fight (Anglo-Catholic in religion, classicist in literature, realist in politics.)
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To: good_fight
Another childhood hero off to the promised land.

Ya done good, Gordo.

26 posted on 10/04/2004 4:28:39 PM PDT by Glenn (The two keys to character: 1) Learn how to keep a secret. 2) ...)
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To: rang1995
"from the right stiff"

Oh, dear...

27 posted on 10/04/2004 4:30:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (*This Just In ~ Dan Rather's Penis Is A Forgery, Film At 11*)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

WHOOPS---sorry


28 posted on 10/04/2004 4:36:24 PM PDT by rang1995
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To: good_fight

Gemini 12 Prime and Back-up Crews - 9-8-66

Prime crew : (front row,r to l)James Lovell, Command Pilot ; Edwin Aldrin, Pilot

Back-up crew : (back row,r to l)Gordon Cooper, Command Pilot ; Eugene Cernan, Pilot

Photo taken in front of Gemini mock-up

29 posted on 10/04/2004 4:45:25 PM PDT by Jackknife (.......Land of the Free,because of the Brave.)
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To: good_fight; Darth Reagan

Go Hot Dog Go!!!!!


30 posted on 10/04/2004 4:46:10 PM PDT by marblehead17 (I love it when a plan comes together.)
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To: Howlin
All 12 episodes.

You certainly have stamina.

31 posted on 10/04/2004 4:47:08 PM PDT by Samwise (The Pajama People: They also serve who hunt and peck.)
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To: good_fight
RIP Gordon Cooper.

One of my childhood heros.

32 posted on 10/04/2004 4:59:06 PM PDT by Reagan Man (.....................................................The Choice is Clear....... Re-elect BUSH-CHENEY)
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To: good_fight
RIP, Gordo...

High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings, Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or even eagle flew. And, while silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

33 posted on 10/04/2004 5:00:35 PM PDT by janetgreen
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To: good_fight
I was in elementary school during the Gemini and Apollo eras, but I lived and breathed the space program. Like most kids my age I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. At least part of my lifelong interest in flying and the Navy and civilian aviation careers that followed can be directly attributed to our pioneering astronauts. Those guys were my heroes. Who, I wonder, provides that kind of public role model for kids today?

Godspeed, Colonel Cooper. You'll be missed.

34 posted on 10/04/2004 5:04:17 PM PDT by Denver Ditdat (Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now, but we preferred it when he belonged to us.)
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To: somerville

"The Right Stuff" --- I loved that movie and I still love Dennis Quaid because he's still wicked. :o)

Gordon Cooper was one of my childhood heroes along with Gus Grissom, who was born in the same small Indiana town as my mother. May he rest in peace.


35 posted on 10/04/2004 5:12:36 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Denver Ditdat
Who, I wonder, provides that kind of public role model for kids today?

Do we even dare to dream that big anymore? Do we have men of that will and character?

I realize those days weren't perfect, but there was something in the American character that was not only "can do" but "will do".

Even the libs -- misguided as they were -- had bold plans. Now it seems anyone with an big idea and a bold plan is nibbled to death by squawking ducks.

36 posted on 10/04/2004 5:14:35 PM PDT by good_fight (Anglo-Catholic in religion, classicist in literature, realist in politics.)
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To: somerville; Mjaye

From the one script of "The Right Stuff" I could find on the internet...
my apologies for my imperfect editing/formatting and the all-caps:

Reporter:
MR. COOPER! THERE HE IS. BIG SMILE.
WE'RE TALKING TO GORDON COOPER, THE NEXT AMERICAN ASTRONAUT TO
ORBIT THE EARTH.
SINCE YOU'RE THE LAST OF THE ORIGINAL SEVEN AND THE LEAST WELL-KNOWN,
TELL US,
WHO WAS THE BEST PILOT YOU EVER SAW?


Gordon Cooper:
WHO WAS THE BEST PILOT I EVER SAW? WHO WAS THE BEST PILOT I EVER SAW?
WELL, I'LL TELL YOU... I SEEN A LOT OF THEM.
MOST OF THEM ARE PICTURES ON A WALL.


Reporter:
WHAT DID YOU SAY?


Gordon Cooper:
PICTURES ON A WALL, BACK AT SOME PLACE... THAT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST ANYMORE.


Reporter:
MR. COOPER, SPEAK UP.


Gordon Cooper:
SOME OF THEM ARE... RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM, AND SOME OF THEM
ARE STILL OUT THERE SOMEWHERE, DOING WHAT THEY ALWAYS DO--
GOING UP EACH DAY IN A HURTLING PIECE OF MACHINERY,
PUTTING THEIR HIDES OUT ON THE LINE, HANGING IT OUT OVER
THE EDGE, PUSHING THAT ENVELOPE AND HAULING IT IN.

BUT THERE WAS ONE PILOT I ONCE SAW WHO I THINK TRULY DID HAVE
THE RIGHT--


Reporter:
HOW CLOSE WERE YOU TO NOT HAULING IT BACK?


Gordon Cooper:
WHO WAS THE BEST PILOT I EVER SAW? WELL, UH...YOU'RE LOOKING AT HIM.


(VOA's humble opinion: Dennis Quaid will never top that scene)


37 posted on 10/04/2004 5:16:05 PM PDT by VOA
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To: good_fight
My heroes have always been astronauts...

Just damn.
38 posted on 10/04/2004 5:17:21 PM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: good_fight

The Mekons
Ghosts Of American Astronauts

Up in the hills above Bradford
Outside the Napalm factory
(They're floating above us)
Ghosts of American Astronauts
Glow in the headlights beam

It's just a small step for him
It's a nice break from Vietnam
(Filmed in a factory)
Out on the back lot in Houston
Who says the world isn't flat

John Glenn drinks cocktails with God
In a cafe in downtown Saigon
(High above them)
Ghosts of American Astronauts
Are drifting too close to the sun

Chorus:

A flag flying in the vacuum
Nixon sucks a dry Martini
Ghosts of American astronauts
Stay with us in our dreams


(Okay, its not the greatest tribute but I like the song and it came to mind.)


39 posted on 10/04/2004 5:32:15 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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To: VOA

Yours is not a humble opinion. It's the truth: Dennis Quaid will never top that scene. I get a little teary thinking about it.


40 posted on 10/04/2004 5:46:14 PM PDT by somerville
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