Cooper liked to race cars and boats, and entered the $28,000 Salton City 500 miles (800 km) boat race, and the Southwest Championship Drag Boat races in 1965, and the 1967 Orange Bowl Regatta with fire fighter Red Adair. [EXPOSED]. order back issues and use the historic Daily Express “The show was titled Cooper’s Treasure and is believed to be worth billions of dollars in gold and other valuable items found. Gordon Cooper, 34, was killed in a Rockford, Illinois, motorcycle accident on State Street on Friday, July 19th. Discussion in 'Stamp Chat' started by James-2489, Oct 4, 2017. The series went on to reveal how Mr Cooper noticed several “anomalies” around the Earth, but he apparently did not tell NASA about them on touchdown. The cause of death was not announced, ... 1927, the only son of Leroy Gordon Cooper Sr., an Air Force colonel who befriended Amelia Earhart, according to accounts of Cooper's life. “Cooper would then mark on a map where these potential locations were off the United States coast, invaluable information for the US defence at the time. Coronavirus in Illinois updates: 4,000 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19, 46 additional deaths reported, Brad Biggs’ 10 thoughts after the Chicago Bears lost 24-10 to the Los Angeles Rams. 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The investigating agency, the Rockford Police Department, responded to the collision which occurred at 3700 State Street at approximately 4:00 p.m. between a … (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) 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. Moon landing shock: How Apollo astronauts ignored NASA’s instructions, Yellowstone ready to erupt? In 1968, he entered the 24 Hours of Daytona, but NASA management ordered him to withdraw due to the dangers involved. In 1963 Cooper piloted the longest and last Mercury spaceflight, Mercury-Atlas 9. “But eventually, time and life caught up with Cooper, due to his illness, Cooper was unable to continue his research and so in 2004, he passed on the task to a close friend – Darrell Miklos – who received every piece of paper. “But the anomalies played on his mind and for reasons unknown he never told NASA about his bizarre findings, instead he wanted to find out what they were himself. Home; This edition; 1940, English, Book, Illustrated edition: I searched the world for death / by Gordon Cooper. “He kept it to himself for 40 years, setting off on a self-provided mission during his spare time and as he investigated, he realised many of these oddities were scattered through old Spanish ship trade routes, making him wonder if the blips were shipwrecks.”. The series was first released in 2017, and a second series in 2018, it is unclear whether there are plans for a third. There are a number of stamps depicting this Astronaut, the following issued by Romania. During that 34-hour mission he became the first American to spend an entire day in space, the first to sleep in space, and the last American launched on an entirely solo orbital mission. Gordon Cooper was born on March 6, 1927 and died on October 4, 2004. “The information from all Cooper’s notes turned out to be accurate and Miklos and his crew made a number of great discoveries during the journey.”. Cooper became the first astronaut to make a second orbital flight when he flew as Command Pilot of Gemini 5 in 1965. To date, the biggest discovery made was an anchor from one of Christopher Colombus’ ships, dated to have been used between 1492 and 1550. Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends plan to start issuing speed camera tickets for cars going 6 mph over the limit as ‘safety’ issue. After serving as backup commander of the Apollo 10 mission, he was superseded by Alan Shepard, and retired from NASA and the Air Force with the rank of colonel in 1971. Winners and losers from the Chicago Bears’ Week 7 loss: Brian Griese coaxing quite a quote from Nick Foles, ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and Dr. Seuss, New Florida poll shows Biden with 50% and Trump at 48%: Track the race for president in key battleground states, Baby boy found after police say he was never in SUV reported taken from outside Southwest Side convenience store, Billy McFarland, of Fyre Festival infamy, now in solitary confinement after podcast interview. Born in Shawnee, Okla., Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. flew his first plane when he was just seven years old.His father, an Army colonel, took him for a ride in a J-3 Piper Cub and let him take the controls. “As Cooper was searching for these destructive areas, he found something else, something that didn’t make sense.”. 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The narrator explained in 2019: “Cooper was instructed to observe any effects zero gravity would have on the human body, then after a period of time, he would return to Earth safely. However, YouTube channel “TheRichest” revealed how he ran his own project alongside his set tasks during a mini-series. Along with Pilot Pete Conrad, he set a new space endurance record by traveling 3,312,993 miles (5,331,745 km) in 190 hours and 56 minutes—just short of eight days—showing that astronauts could survive in space for the length of time necessary to go from the Earth to the Moon and back. Gordon Cooper was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot and the youngest of seven astronauts in NASA's Project Mercury. City data shows a more complicated picture. James-2489 Well-Known Member. It added: “He saw these magnetic anomalies through the camera, but they weren’t the correct size or shape to by nuclear-holding facilities and many were in the shallow waters around the Caribbean. It was not alright. But Foles and Nagy have plenty to iron out this week. Gordon Cooper was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot and the youngest of seven astronauts in NASA's Project Mercury. The series continued: “He looked up known ships that had sunk in those areas and from what he found, the research seemed to suggest that he was right. “But this wasn’t just to shoot some pretty pictures, there was another objective involved in taking all the space snaps, including the Soviet Union to search for hidden Soviet nuclear bases and submarines. Gordon Cooper, one of the original “Mercury Seven” astronauts, died on Oct. 4 of natural causes.He was 77. Learn about copper’s treasure. newspaper archive. Gordon Cooper would have been 77 years old at the time of death or 88 years old today. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, Hello all, today is the death anniversary of US Astronaut Gordon Cooper on October 4th 2004. “During his time in orbit, Cooper completed 22 revolutions around the Earth, he was also on the last single manned space mission. “This grabbed hold of Cooper, he had to find out what these bizarre marks were, so he made another map of all the anomaly locations. 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