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Aww crap. He was the best damn pilot you ever did see.
2 posted on
10/04/2004 4:01:21 PM PDT by
Kornev
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Rest In Peace, Colonel Cooper. One of my earliest heroes.
3 posted on
10/04/2004 4:03:26 PM PDT by
So Cal Rocket
(Proud Member: Internet Pajama Wearers for Truth)
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4 posted on
10/04/2004 4:05:52 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(*This Just In ~ Dan Rather's Penis Is A Forgery, Film At 11*)
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I'm sorry to hear this, we are losing so many of the pioneers from that era. I am going to find my copy of "The Right Stuff" and watch it again.
5 posted on
10/04/2004 4:06:07 PM PDT by
Mjaye
(PNN = Pajama News Network)
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9 posted on
10/04/2004 4:09:00 PM PDT by
Mat_Helm
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Please provide more of a link, I was just at CNN, did a search for GORDON COOPER DIED and NOTHING showed up for him dying
11 posted on
10/04/2004 4:14:22 PM PDT by
RaceBannon
(KERRY FLED . . . WHILE GOOD MEN BLED!!)
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12 posted on
10/04/2004 4:15:45 PM PDT by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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In his post-NASA career, Cooper became known as an outspoken believer in UFOs and charged that the government was covering up its knowledge of extraterrestrial activity. I'm with you Coop!
To bad the politics kept you off the lunar surface.
***********A TRUE AMERICAN HERO !!****************
16 posted on
10/04/2004 4:19:35 PM PDT by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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Everyone should rent "The Right Stuff" in Cooper's honor. He's portrayed by a young and wicked Dennis Quaid.
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19 posted on
10/04/2004 4:21:13 PM PDT by
Petronski
(Watching Heinz and Kerry show affection is like watching two lobsters in a kung fu movie.)
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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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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.)
To: good_fight; Darth Reagan
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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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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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.
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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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My heroes have always been astronauts...
Just damn.
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