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Mercury 7 vets envy Glenns final space ride
Gordon Cooper as he recalls Earth from space says he would leap at one more shuttle flight. John Glenn set for space shuttle Discovery in October with a crew including two doctors, amid debate among Mercury 7 survivors about the purpose and value of the historic mission.
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Gordon Cooper
Earth
Cooper
John Glenn
NASA
Ohio
Glenn
Scott Carpenter
Carpenter
Space
Aurora 7
Walter Schirra Jr
Schirra
John
God
Story Musgrave
Musgrave
U.S. Senate
National Institute On Aging
America
David Liskowsky
NASA Life Sciences Program
Liskowsky
Frank Borman
Adrian LeBlanc
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston
Gus Grissom
Deke Slayton
Alan Shepard
Volkswagen
Atlantic
Apphote
Mercury
Walter Schirra
Shepard
Johnson Space Center
Cape Canaveral