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Gordon Cooper Jr.

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Astronaut
Died
Oct 4, 2004
Zodiac
Pisces
Born in
Shawnee OK
About
One of NASA's original seven Mercury astronauts, he spent 34 hours alone in a space capsule, demonstrating the possibility of reaching the moon.
Family
He grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma, until his senior year of high school when his father was called up by the military and the family moved to Kentucky.

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