Background
Cooper, Leroy Gordon was born on March 6, 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Leroy Gordon and Hattie Lee (Herd) Cooper.
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Leroy Gordon Cooper
Edit ProfileEducation
Student, University Hawaii, 1946-1949; student, European extension U. Maryland., 1951-1953; Bachelor of Science in Aero. Engineering, Air Force Institute Technology, 1956; graduate, Experimental Test Pilot School, United States Air Force, 1957.
Career
Commissioned Lieutenant, United States Air Force, 1949; advanced through grades to colonel, United States Air Force, 1965; jet fighter pilot, 1950-1954; pilot experimental flight test engineering, 1957-1959; astronaut with, Project Mercury, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, from 1959; piloted Mercury-Atlas 9 mission (last Mercury flight), 1963; command pilot, Gemini V, 1965; worked with Apollo lunar program, until 1970; vice president R & D, W.E.D. Enterprises, 1974-1980; president, Extra Large, Inc., Beverly Hills, California, from 1980; president, Galaxy Group Inc., 1988-1993.
Membership
Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Society Experimental Test Pilots, American Astronautical Society.
Connections
Married Trudy B. Olson, August 29,1947 (divorced). Children— Camala Keoki, Janita Lee. Married Susan Taylor, May 6, 1972.
Children— Elizabeth Jo, Colleen Taylor.
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American