Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper Jr., one of the most colorful of the Mercury 7 astronauts, whose exploits and foibles were made famous in the book and movie “The Right Stuff,” died Monday at ...

(CNN) -- Leroy Gordon Cooper, one of the nation's first astronauts who once set a space endurance record by traveling more than 3.3 million miles aboard Gemini 5 in 1965, died on Monday ...

Kraft said he last saw Cooper in 1998, when he gave an emotional tribute to Shepard at the former astronaut's funeral. Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was born on March 6, 1927, in Shawnee, Okla.

Streaking through space at 17,157 m.p.h.. Air Force Major Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. ate, slept, exchanged banter with ground-bound fellow astronauts, coolly conducted scientific experiments.

Former NASA astronauts and others paid tribute… Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., was interviewed about his career. He was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury. T… ...

With all his laconic ways, Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was a wildly acclaimed homecoming hero. In Honolulu, Cocoa Beach, Washington, New York and Houston, the Oklahoma-born Air Force major ...

Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was born in Shawnee, Okla., in 1927. After serving in the Marine Corps, he went to the University of Hawaii and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army.