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Gordon Cooper Accomplishments

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NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper graduated from the University of Hawai'i. After graduating from the University of Hawai'i, Cooper got a space commission. Gordon Cooper did many groundbreaking things in the astronaut community. Cooper was a part of the seven original astronauts who participated in Project Mercury. He was also the first man to sleep in space. It interests me that he came out of a college, in Hawai'i, and he was a part of remarkable events made in history. It's not every day that you see someone from a school, in such a small state, making a difference in the world. In 1957, Gordon Cooper was flying over West Germany and claimed to have seen a UFO. Later, Cooper was the manager at the Edwards Air Force base. A couple of his crew

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