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Google shows 10x more "Gordon Cooper" with "astronaut" than "Gordo Cooper", so apparently the nickname never caught on as the usual way to refer to him. Stan 23:32, 18 Oct 2003 (UTC)
- However, he wasn't the last individual to reach space alone.
- Two flights of the X-15 later in 1963 passed the 100 km "edge of space". ... [SpaceShipOne] ...
These two paragraphs are inprecise. If "the last individual" does not rule out non-U.S. astronauts, then China's Yang Liwei and possibly some other Russian astronauts may count. Were there any trips that include "Home Alone" where a single man was on a space station or going home alone where a man went home by himself? -- Toytoy 13:59, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] UFO allegations edited out, NASA bios in
I'm editing this entry pretty heavily to incorporate the NASA biographies, including redacting much of the UFO sighting content. The material I took out looks to me like it was intended to convince the reader that Cooper saw UFOs instead of simply saying that Cooper claimed to have seen UFOs. I left in the reference links for those who want more about Cooper's UFO exploits. Cooper was best known as a Mercury astronaut, yet when I started the edit there was more content here about two UFO "sightings" than about his entire astronaut career. Also, the whole entry was clearly written by a fan – calling him "Gordon" or "Gordo" instead of "Cooper" along with lots of personal anecdotes – so I took it in a more NPOV direction. Finally, although the NASA biography states he received an honorary doctorate from Oklahoma City University, it was actually from Oklahoma State University. OCU doesn't have an engineering or department to give such an award, but OSU does. - BaseballBaby 10:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
