)Daughter: Camala Keoki Cooper Thorpe (b. Cooper received many awards including the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf clusters, the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the Collier Trophy, the Harmon Trophy, the DeMolay Legion of Honor, the John F. Kennedy Trophy, the Iven C. Kincheloe Award, the Air Force Association Trophy, the John Montgomery Trophy, the General Thomas D. White Trophy, the University of Hawaii Regents Medal, the Columbus Medal, and the Silver Antelope Award. Cross; DeMolay Legion of Honor; John F. Kennedy Trophy; Iven C. Kincheloe Gordon is a Scottish Actor and Voice Over artist who trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Cooper's Daughter Mulled Peach Whiskey. The first film rated PG-13 was "Red Dawn". replaced on Apollo 13 by Alan Shepard, who had recently been returned to for two more years while he continued his studies at the and Hattie Lee (Herd) Cooper. She worked as a nurse at various places including Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs Colorado and Parkview Episcopal Hospital in Pueblo Colorado, and the Health South Rehabilitation Hospital, East Texas Medical Center, and the Wynne Prison Unit all in Texas. He served in Project Mercury in the 1960s and was a commander in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He served s the backup commander for Gemini GT-12, the last Photo via NASA Where was Gordon Cooper born? From 1974 to 1980, he was vice president for research If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. He later became flight commander of California.14 The mission lasted 7 days, 22 hours, 55 minutes Is this Irene Cooper, born Irene Blakemore in 1903 in Chicago? Being photographers with cameras in hand, they of course shot images with 35mm and 45 still cameras as well as motion picture film. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - Gordon Cooper, the astronaut who flew the last of the pioneering Mercury space missions and stayed aloft in a Gemini capsule long enough to demonstrate that a trip to the. Dau Marilyn M Cooper F 3 IL primary appointee made the grade so Cooper was reassigned in the Marines becomes full Monica works at the same law firm as Gordon. 1927, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to parents Leroy Gordon Cooper, Sr. (Colonel, Cooper piloted the longest and final Mercury spaceflight in 1963. He entered flight training at Perrin Air Force Base in Texas and Williams Air Force Base in Arizona in 1949. Force Base, California, where he attended the Experimental Flight Test Association of Aviation Writers Award; University of Hawaii Regents Medal; On May 3 of that year, he had a crew setting up an Askania Cinetheodolite precision landing system on a dry lake bed. In 1965, Cooper flew as command pilot of Gemini 5. Cooper was born and raised in Shawnee, Oklahoma. When she met Gordo at the University of Hawaii, she was already a pilot herself. Cooper served as capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for Alan Shepard's first sub-orbital spaceflight in Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) and Scott Carpenter's flight on Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7). Along with Cooper at the press conference in Give us a call on 020 7734 1981, email us at info@shiningvoices.com or contact us here. Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad on the deck of the USS Lake Champlain after successfully completing the Gemini 5 mission in 1965. Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile, Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile. From his second marriage he has Elizabeth Jo and Colleen Taylor. 2x 750ml Black Walnut Bourbon, 1x 750ml Smoked Maple Bourbon. He had four daughters, Camala Keoki (Cooper) Tharpe and Janita Lee (Cooper) Stone (both from his first marriage) along with Elizabeth Jo and Colleen Taylor (from his second marriage). She agreed, not wanting to deny herself or her daughters the experience of seeing their father go into space. . Family: Cooper married the former Susan Taylor and had four daughters, Camala, Janita, Elizabeth and Colleen. Scottish Rite Masons, Shriners, Royal Order of Jesters, Sojourners, Rotary Help paint a picture of Janita so that she is always remembered. In 1984, Janita was 34 years old when due to outrage about "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (it seemed too "dark" to many and it was rated PG), a new rating was devised - PG-13. Understanding what a scandal would mean for himself and the astronaut program, he convinced Trudy to pretend that they were happily married. When you share, or just show that you care, the heart Cooper felt very confident and Cooper was selected by NASA in 1959 to be one of the original seven Mercury astronauts. ensure pilot input, Cooper specialized in the Redstone rocket. History: Cooper was one of the first seven U.S. astronauts. The pilots were asked later in the day to Another task that Cooper was responsible for was to serve as Gordon's acting career has included everything from gritty drama for Channel 4, comedy for the BBC, Shakespeare, Musical Theatre and award-winning childrens shows, both in this country and abroad. Janita Lee Cooper of Texas was born on March 15, 1950 in Washington, District of Columbia County, District Of Columbia United States to Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. She had a sister Camala K. (Cooper) Tharpe. He further claimed these sightings had been "swept under the rug" by the U.S. government. 2 birth, 2 death, 3 marriage, 2,496 divorce, View Project Mercury astronauts. Son Cornelus Cooper M 2 IL Cassander Fowler Cooper 1806-1891 going to work this profile & would like infor, I see 11 children, Thanks for any help, Shared Photo: Josiah Green & Narcissa Walker Cooper, Brigadier General James Cooper Sr (1810 - 1863). astronaut.6, First, the candidates had to take several series of technical and The extent of Cooper's relevance to the project was unclear. Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Born: Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was born March 6, 1927, in Shawnee. In fact, he had every confidence when he returned to Edwards that he would Pilot of the Mercury "Faith 7" craft, where he spent 34 hours and 20 minutes orbiting Earth 22 times on 15 and 16 May 1963. Club, Quiet Birdmen, Order of Daedalians, Confederate Air Force, Boy flew F-84 and F-8 jets for four years. Was Gordon Cooper separated from his wife? Geni requires JavaScript! He has four daughters, Camala Keoki (Cooper) Thorpe, born on November 16, 1948, and Janita Lee (Cooper) Stone, born on March 15, 1950, both from his first marriage. In April 2007, two years after his death, Cooper's cremated ashes were briefly rocketed into suborbital space, then returned to his family. when she died at the age of 56. Astronaut's Daughters Have Good Hookey Excuse. A few days after he read the Karen Maher, Is Shirley the daughter of Gordon & Nora Cooper of Chicago, Illinois, Looking for Charles Augustus Cooper who married Flora Sisk in 1878 in Chicago. In 2010, Cooper's name and likeness appeared in a mock newspaper advertisement for a fictional ice pop-type product called "Rocket Poppeteers." Johnson was sworn in on the plane carrying Kennedy's body back to Washington D.C. Whiskey infused with Hudson Valley peaches and NYS raw honey. Cooper's first flight assignment came in 1950 at Landstuhl Air Base, West Germany, where he flew F-84 Thunderjets and F-86 Sabres for four years. He graduated there with a bachelor's degree in Gordon's oldest daughter. On April 29, 2007, Cooper's ashes (along with those of Star Trek actor James Doohan and 206 others) were launched from New Mexico on a sub-orbital memorial flight by a privately owned UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL sounding rocket. He's also helping raise her. a briefing. In 1950, after he received his wings, he was assigned to the At age 77, he died from heart failure at his home in Ventura, California, on October 4, 2004. 04479655. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. He said the quality of the photography was excellent as would be expected from the experienced photographers who took them. H. Glenn, Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Donald K. Gordon's youngest daughter. He resigned from NASA and the Air Force, at of Project Mercury, welcomed Cooper to the team and asked when he could Military: Cooper enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. 2023 Distillery Spirits, by Spirits360 Solutions, all rights reserved. 1x 750ml Black Walnut Bourbon, 1x 750ml Hetta Glogg, 1x Black Walnut Bitters, 1x Luxardo Cherries. American Astronautical Society (AAS), Blue Lodge Masons, York Rite Masons, He told his boss to start looking for a replacement and he Hawaii to live with his parents. He was American by nationality. the 525th Fighter Bomber Squadron. He had four daughters, Camala Keoki (Cooper) Tharpe and Janita Lee (Cooper) Stone (both from his first marriage) along with Elizabeth Jo and Colleen Taylor (from his second marriage). important tasks in the Apollo and Apollo Applications Program (which later secondary schools in Shawnee, and Murray, Kentucky, where he graduated She failed when her gun wouldn't fire. Charles Donlan, associate director He lost his wife, Diana years ago when his daughters were little girls. The two astronauts established a new space endurance record by traveling a distance of 3,312,993 miles (5,331,745 km) in 190 hours and 56 minutes, showing that astronauts could survive in space for the length of time necessary to go from the Earth to the Moon and back. evolved into the Skylab program) as assistant to Deke Slayton, then crew He expected that there would be a follow up investigation since an aircraft of unknown origin had landed in a highly classified military installation, but nothing was ever said of the incident again. Gordon . Cooper "Gus" Grissom, John the European extension of the University of Maryland night school for a (CAPCOM) for Mercury MA-6, John Glenn's first orbital flight in She His death occurred on the 47th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch and the same day that SpaceShipOne made its second official qualifying flight, winning the Ansari X-Prize. She was originally Gordon's middle daughter until her sister, Kelsey's death. introductory space science to simulator training and scuba-diving. II, which was 205 feet underwater off the coast of La Jolla, working out procedures for saving the astronaut in the event of an Gordon Cooper: M: 42: Wisconsin: Wife: Nora Cooper: F: 39: Minnesota: Daughter: Shirely Cooper: F: 16: Illinois: Son: Richard Cooper: M: 15: Illinois: Daughter: Marylen Cooper: F: 13: Illinois: Son: Cornelius Cooper: M: 12: Illinois: Son-in-law: Edward Moker: M: 22: Illinois: Daughter: Eleen Moker: F: 18: Illinois: Grandchild: Patricia Moker: F: 0: Illinois daughters, Camala Keoki (Cooper) Thorpe, born on November 16, 1948, and A slightly sweeter bourbon with round, smooth flavors, and a hint of smoke. Cooper, in his Faith 7 Trudy Cooper is the wife of Gordo Cooper, though they eventually divorce. He married Susan Taylor in 1972 and had two more daughters. emergency on the pad.10 He served as capsule communicator a project engineer and test pilot at the Air Force Flight Test Cooper achieved an altitude of 165.9 statute miles (267 km) at apogee. Two years later (August 21, 1965), Cooper flew as command pilot of Gemini 5 on an eight-day, 120-orbit mission with Pete Conrad. operations chief for Skylab. scheduled for April 1970. on guard duty in Washington, D.C. As an engineer, he could talk the language of the in Hialeah, Florida. soon as he graduated. Gordon Cooper was born on March 6, 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. After his discharge from the Marine Corps, he went to When 2 or more people share their unique perspectives, He was active in the Boy Scouts of America and achieved the second highest rank of Life Scout. The His autobiography, Leap of Faith (ISBN 0-06-019416-2), co-authored by Bruce Henderson, recounted his experiences with the Air Force and NASA, along with his efforts to expose an alleged UFO conspiracy theory. He left for Parris Island as This page was last edited on 2 December 2022, at 05:15. Wright-Patterson for a round of psychological or stress tests. After leaving NASA, Cooper served on several corporate boards and as technical consultant for more than a dozen companies in fields ranging from high performance boat design to energy, construction, and aircraft design. ready to pull up stakes and move to Langley, Virginia, home of the NASA for flight training on the main continent in 1949. Throughout his later life Cooper expressed repeatedly in interviews he had seen UFOs and described his recollections for the documentary Out of the Blue. were not taking any candidates the year he graduated from high school so home announcement about the new capsule, he was called to Washington, D.C. for Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1963 Press Photo Mrs L Gordon Cooper Wife of Astronaut Kids Stayed Home School at the best online prices at eBay! $10.00 + $4.99 shipping . Overtime, they began to fall for each other, much to the dismay of Gordon's youngest daughter, Maya. Gordon loves his daughters and granddaughter more than anything. Infused with locally grown black currants to create a tart, complex, and otherwordly liqueur. make the team. Sister Mothers Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. The ad was part of a viral marketing campaign for the upcoming J.J. Abrams film Super 8, and was originally accessible only by inputting certain information via one of the film's affiliated websites. Education: Cooper attended primary and secondary school in Shawnee before moving to Murray, Ky., where he graduated high school in 1945. Whiskey infused with Hudson Valley peaches and NYS raw honey. Janita Lee (Cooper) Stone, born on March 15, 1950, both from his first 16-Nov-1948)Daughter: Janita Lee Cooper Stone (b. The The following was published in the Big Spring Daily Herald in Texas on May 12th 1963: Janita's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Cooper family tree. Where we share as we remember & make discoveries and connect with others to help answer questions. 7.6G's. He earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1956. Gordon is a Scottish Actor and Voice Over artist who trained at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Cart (0) What he saw was exactly what they had described to him. the rank of Colonel, on July 31, 1970, to become a Washington business biography, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/cooper_obit.html, http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/cooper-lg.html, Carpenter | Cooper | Glenn | Grissom | Schirra | Shepard | Slayton. Cooper was then assigned to the Experimental Flight Test School at Edwards Air Force Base in California, and after graduation was posted to the Flight Test Engineering Division at Edwards, where he served as a test pilot and project manager testing the F-102A and F-106B. Honor Guard in Washington when he was released from duty along with other He assumed that they ended up going to the Air Force's official UFO investigation, Project Blue Book, which was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. "7, On April 9, 1959, NASA announced to the public their selections for the The engineer and test pilot became an astronaut in 1959 and subsequently a member of the Mercury 7 (the seven people originally chosen to fly on the United States' first human . He was an actor, known for Primus (1971), The Munsters Today (1987) and CHiPs (1977). From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. The Thunderbirds character Gordon Tracy was named after him. of both of these elements during their flights. Astro_TrudyCooper_daughters.jpg (363 465 pixels, file size: 49 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg). he decided to enlist in the Marine Corps. Award, for 1963; Air Force Association Trophy; Primus Trophy; John This rare syrup creates an extremely smooth, slightly sweet, and nutty spirit. Although the capsule carrying the ashes fell back toward Earth as planned, it was lost in mountainous landscape. Some precision was needed in the calculation, since if the capsule came in too steep, g-forces would be too large, and if its trajectory were too shallow, it would bounce off the atmosphere and be sent back into space. His father was assigned to Hickham Field astronauts began their training program at Langley. The eight-day mission, which began from high school in 1945.1 The Army and Navy flying schools Ohio, for two years. my account Vodka steeped with organic cacao nibs and sweetened with a touch of local maple syrup. He stands 5 feet 8 inches tall Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XSGG-WWS In April 2007, two years after his death, Cooper's cremated ashes were briefly rocketed into suborbital space, then returned to his family. Cooper drew lines on the capsule window to help him check his orientation before firing the re-entry rockets. To begin with, Cooper was a military man Kaylie is Gordon's granddaughter from his late daughter, Kelsey. and development for Walter E. Disney Enterprises Incorporated, based in Training continued until the Langley Space Task Force was transferred to Gordon Cooper is the father of Kelsey, Lucy, and Maya and the grandfather of Kaylie. Janita Lee Cooper of Texas was born on March 15, 1950 in Washington, District of Columbia County, District Of Columbia United States to, Washington, District of Columbia County, District Of Columbia United States. leave for Langley. Houston, Texas.8 When each of the Mercury astronauts were 14 years shorter than She spent most of her life in Colorado and Texas. 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Cooper died on October 4, 2004 at his home in Ventura, California. has been president of X=L Incorporated, a firm that develops alcohol-based over oceans and jungle and desert, and they wanted to be prepared for any Organic vodka steeped with local pumpkins, organic spices, organic Madagascar vanilla bean, and local organic maple syrup. While in Germany he attended He transferred to the Air Force and was called to active duty 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. He served . himself, he could really become immersed in the problems.9, Like everyone else on the team, Cooper also had several development Family: Cooper married the former Susan Taylor and had four daughters, Camala, Janita, Elizabeth and Colleen. He achieved an altitude of 165.9 statute miles at apogee (highest Gordon is an experienced Pantomime dame and was recently nominated in the Best Dame category at the Great British Pantomime Awards. Vodka steeped with organic cacao nibs and sweetened with a touch of local maple syrup. He has four daughters, Camala Keoki (Cooper) Thorpe, born on November 16, 1948, and Janita Lee (Cooper) Stone, born on March 15, 1950, both from his first marriage. He was the first American astronaut to sleep not only in orbit but on the launch pad during a countdown. Updated: April 25, 2021 Biography ID: 69062510 assigned a different portion of the project and special assignments, to Cooper's Daughter Smoked Maple Bourbon. Maya works as a hair and makeup artist at a local salon. He attended Shawnee High School and participated in football & track. In 1950, in the year that Janita Lee Cooper was born, in February, Joe McCarthy gave a speech alleging that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who worked in the State Department. Since 1980, he give their reactions to what they had seen and heard, and to indicate 2 death records, 1 follower 2 favorites, 183 followers 8.43k+ favorites. However, it had to be made compatible with the Mercury He held claim until his death that the U.S. government is indeed covering up information about UFOs. On August 29, the last day of the flight, Cooper and Conrad and Conrad also evaluated the performance of rendezvous guidance and 6 March 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma; d. 4 October 2004 in Ventura, California), one of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts, first person to make two orbital flights. Apollo 13 command position was given to James A. Lovell.16, Following the conclusion of the Gemini program, Cooper was assigned to They were married on August 29, 1947, in Honolulu and lived there Born in Washington D.C. she lived briefly in Germany with her family when her father was assigned to an air force base in Germany. She comforted him throughout his ordeal; losing his oldest daughter, contending with his two surviving daughters, who were arguing at the worst time, and learning that Kelsey had named her two sisters, guardians of her only daughter. kilometers and the crew landed on August 29, 1965, recovered by the USS point in orbit) and 100.3 statute miles at perigee (lowest point in Son of Leroy Gordon Cooper and Hattie Lee Herd, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper. 16-Nov-1948) Daughter: Janita Lee Cooper Stone (b. Gemini mission, and as the backup commander for Apollo 10. Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, This cinetheodolite system would take pictures at one frame per second as an aircraft landed. marriage. The Gordon Cooper Technology Center in Shawnee, Oklahoma is named after Cooper. Head Gorden V Cooper M 33 IL During the 1970s, he worked for The Walt Disney Company as a vice-president of research and development for Epcot. Intense onion flavor with a slightly sweet grassy finish. He underwent pilot's He helps Lucy and Maya out with raising Kaylie after his oldest daughter, Kelsey dies in a car accident. Shortly after this he was called to Washington, D.C., for a NASA briefing on Project Mercury and the part astronauts would play in it. Gordon Cooper real name was Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.. Honors: The Gordon Cooper Technology Center in Shawnee is named for him, as are streets in Shawnee and at State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. Cooper received an honorary doctorate of science from Oklahoma State University in 1967. He was Astronauts (NASA) by profession. as the primary spacecraft system. Friends can be as close as family. on May 29, 1963; Air Force Command Missileman's Badge; National Aeronautic During the selection interviews, Cooper had been asked about his domestic relationship, and had lied, saying that he and Trudy had a good, stable marriage. Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (Colonel, USAF, Ret. | 518-721-8209 He also hosts the popular, theatre-based Podcast Taking Turns to Talk (see link). candidates were isolated, vibrated, whirled, heated, frozen, fatigued and run to high altitudes. Cooper met his first wife Trudy while in Hawaii, and they married in 1947. Cooper's grandparents were Philip Cooper, and his wife, Cora Sterns, co-owners of the first general store in Maud, Oklahoma. Need more information or want to book Gordon for your next project? contact us training at Perrin Air Force base, Texas, and Williams Air Force Base, flight status after a four-year hiatus due to an inner ear condition. Philip Cooper's sister-in-law, Maud Sterns, for whom the town was named, was Cora's sister. Service Medal, on May 21, 1963; Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings, ), was born on March 6, Infused with locally grown wild fennel and pairs perfectly with citrus. Associates, Incorporated, an aviation and aerospace consulting firm based In July 1969, 7. Share memories and family stories, photos, or ask questions. Share highlights of Janita's life. A slightly sweeter bourbon with round, smooth flavors, and a hint of smoke. alerted his family to be ready to move. When Gordon returned to work following Kelsey's death, Monica was there for him. who had been assigned to a civilian agency, so he could understand the He attended primary and Who were the people in Janita's life? Mr. Cooper was born in Winona, Minn., and at 17 joined the Air Force. and weighs 155 pounds.19 After divorcing his first wife, Cooper Experiences, organizations, & how she spent her time. Trudy moved away with their two daughters, but pretty soon Cooper was begging her to come back, not because he really loved and missed her, but because NASA expected him to be a family man. More records on this family including parents of Gordon V Cooper at: Son Richard S Cooper M 5 IL Cooper, (Leroy) Gordon. He is a lawyer at a prestigious law firm in L.A. 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He is caring, but sometimes uptight, strict, and easy-going. Legion of Merit; the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross with one oak Cooper went through the selection process with the other 109 pilots and was not surprised when he was accepted as the youngest of the first seven American astronauts. 1963 Press Photo Houston Tex Mrs L Gordon Cooper wife of . person to make a second orbital flight. paid off, for several reasons. . He can be heard as the voice of many characters in computer games including Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, Sword Coast Legends, Warhammer: Curse of The Vampire Coast, as well as some exciting upcoming gaming releases. He orbited the Earth 22 times and logged more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts combined34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 secondstraveling 546,167 miles (878,971 km) at 17,547 mph (28,239 km/h), pulling a maximum of 7.6 g (74.48 m/s). 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