Cooper Eur a Mercury Pioneer Ready For Lunar Flight
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. , born March 6, 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, becomes one of the seven Mercury astronauts. He grew up around aviation legends, logged 2600 hours flight time, and seeks a lunar landing while living in Houston after a military career and NASA selection.
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Air Force
Wiley Post
Amelia Earhart
Gordon
Cooper
Carbondale
Colo
Shawnee
Okla
Pacific
Marine Corps
Trudy
Mercury
Wisconsin Senate panel approves watered down teen beer bill
The Governmental and Veterans Affairs Committee approved a bill setting 19 as the state minimum for beer purchases with local option to raise age. 5-0 vote. Assembly backed tavern hours on election days and college branch campus measures, while gifting debates on 21 minimum age and trading stamps.
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Madison
Senate
Senate Governmental and Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Legislative Council
Assembly
Willis Hutnik
Ladysmith
Milford Kiniz
R-Richland Center
Cooper launches private satellite during Faith 7 flight
Astronaut Gordon Cooper circulating on Faith 7 launched a 10 pound satellite with two xenon lights to test visibility from space. The sphere entered a slightly different orbit and observers reported mixed success while Mission Control tracked the lights during the mission.
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Howard Benedict
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gordon Cooper
Cooper
Faith 7
South Atlantic Ocean
Ascension Island
South Atlantic
Senators condemn air fare increase and demand action
Senators protested a 5 percent rise in round trip transatlantic fares after CAB allowed higher IATA rates. The move could add about 27 dollars to a New York London economy ticket, raising questions about international regulation and U S government stance.
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Cete Nova Air Routes
Senate Commerce Committee
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Europe
State Department
International Air Transport
Cooper
Association
IATA
Civil Aeronautics Board
American Airlines
CAB
Alan S. Boyd
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Pan American World Airways
Trans World Airlines
Wisconsin Gov. Reynolds vetoes GOP sales tax bill
Wisconsin Governor John W. Reynolds vetoed a Republican three percent general sales tax aimed at raising 124 million for the coming biennium. He argued the tax would burden the poor, hurt basic goods, and violate his pledge to block a general sales tax while supporting existing tax relief. Republicans charged the veto was a political move and defended the bill’s credits and incentives.
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Madison
John W. Reynolds
Reynolds
Wisconsin
Assembly
Robert Haase
R-Marinette
Paul Alfonsi
Minocqua
Chamber Signs 20 Year Lease for Barron Island Development
The Greater La Crosse Chamber of Commerce signed a 20 year lease with the Pettibone Park Commission covering about 30 acres of Barron Island east of Highway 14 for a trailer park and camping area. Meetings will discuss financing and building plans with health and service facilities required.
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Barron Island
Pettibone Park Commission
Highway 14
Greater
William Skemp
la Crosse
Skemp
Wisconsin Board of Health
Pettibone Park
Pettibone Boat Club
Chamber
Hale
Orbit by orbit profile of CAPE CANAVERAL flight
Astronaut L Gordon Cooper Jr starts Americas longest manned space flight a 22 orbit mission lasting 34 hours 19 minutes The program details each orbit from launch over Bermuda to Cape Canaveral and beyond describing spacecraft checks radiation readings lighting beacons and planned television transmissions for home viewing The mission aims to test man’s performance in weightlessness and set guidelines for future rendezvous missions with Project Gemini
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Mercury Control Center
Cooper
Air Force
Cape Canaveral
Faith 7
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Washington
John H. Glenn Jr
M. Scott Carpenter
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
Japan
Hattie Cooper
Orena Herd
Tecumseh
Okla
Gordon
California
Point Arguello
Pacific Ocean
Midway Island
Atlantic
Pacific
Virgil I. Grissom
Guaymas
Mexico
Grissom
Roger
Fla
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
America
Atlas
Bermuda
Grand Canary Island
United States
Trudy
Houston
Tex
Orbit No. 2
Australia
South Atlantic
South America
U.S
Earth
Menia
Walter M. Schirra
Red
China
Chile
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NASA
Colorphoto
POST
Earhart
Fla. (Ap
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Buck Rogers
Naval Academy Preparatory
The
University of Hawaii
Trudy Olson
Seattle
Wash
Hawaiian Islands
Coopers
Camala
Janita
Manned Spacecraft Center
86Th Fighter Bomber Group
Munich
Germany
Air Force Institute of Technology
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Ohio
Air Force Experimental Flight Test School
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Vincent Mathews
D-Waukesha
Havana
UPI
John Chadwick
Pan American
Trans World
Indian Ocean
South Africa
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