Gordo Cooper: DEAD

[Mike Teacher]

I just saw a News Flash I'll get a site ASAP.

Original Merc 7 Astronaut.

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[Mike Teacher]

NASA Link (http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/cooper_obit.html)


Gordon Cooper Jr., the astronaut who piloted the sixth and last flight of the Mercury program and later commanded Gemini 5, died earlier today at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was 77 years old.


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[sr71blackbird]

Man, that sucks! I may have to bust out my Right Stuff movie and watch it again. RIP Gordo

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[high fly]

Last night on Art Bell, they were already cooking up conspiracy theories, saying Coop was bumped off because he was about to blow the lid off of NASA UFO secrets or something...




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[NewYorkDragons80]

Last night on Art Bell, they were already cooking up conspiracy theories, saying Coop was bumped off because he was about to blow the lid off of NASA UFO secrets or something...
Art only does early Sunday morning and early Monday morning. It was probably George Noory.

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[high fly]

Yeah, you're right.
I guess it was George Nouri.
They were playing tapes of ol' Coop talking about UFOs in this ancient wheeze of a voice that sounded rather otherworldly itself.

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[Furtherman]

Cooper believed in UFO coverup (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/10/04/gordon.cooper/index.html)



In his post-NASA career, Cooper became known as an outspoken believer in UFOs and charged that the government was covering up its knowledge of extraterrestrial activity.

"I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth," he told a United Nations panel in 1985.

"I feel that we need to have a top-level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the Earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion."

He added, "For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us."


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[Mike Teacher]

They were playing tapes of ol' Coop talking about UFOs in this ancient wheeze of a voice that sounded rather otherworldly itself.


Yeah I didnt hear that one but in his last years his southern drawl mixed with the wheaze made for him sounding slow; exactly the opposite.

Anyway his Merc flight, the last of the program, was truly one for the books, no quick lob into the atlantic or 3 orbits. He was up there for something like 23 orbits 30 something hours; all in a can that could fit in the bed of an F-150.

And he brought it down 100% manually, meaning he lined it up visually using the stars instead of data from the ground, and timed the firing himself, instead of some signal from the ground, and while some of the other Mercs landed far away from the ship, Gordo nailed the re-entry so good everyone on deck of the ship, and also live TV, watched it come down some rediculously close distance from the ship.

Hey if he saw something weird I believe him. He was up there, all alone, watching a sunrise and sunset every 90 minutes, how fucking cool is that?

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[Furtherman]

Hey if he saw something weird I believe him.


He wasn't the only one.

Gordon Cooper was one of 400 Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force, NASA and witnesses who have come forward to tell what they have seen in regards to UFOs before Congress. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell is another one. They cannot, however, due to the fact our military has a secuirty oath stating that if you talk about UFOs, you will be discharged and lose your pension. If granted immunity, they'll tell the truth.


Testimony that Explains the Secrecy (http://www.disclosureproject.org/aboutexecsumm.htm)





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[Doogie]

I know I am about two weeks two late, but this is a sad state of news for the nation. But I guess it goes to show that when celebs die they die in threes (Dangerfield and Reeve). Cooper was a lil outspoken to a point that it sometimes almost got his ass kicked by his fellow Mercury Seven. And is a reason why he wasnt necessarily considered for the Apollo Project.

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