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Cooper to test long spaceflight in depressurized capsule
Cape Canaveral AP Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr plans the most ambitious U S manned spaceflight to date a 34 hour 22 orbit mission atop an Atlas rocket He will depressurize the cabin to match space environment test a pressure suit gather data on food sleep stars and space sightseeing He will eject a flashing sphere tow an orange balloon and use multiple cameras as he becomes the first American to stay in orbit for more than a day and a half The mission aims to expand knowledge of extended weightlessness and inform Gemini plans with medical monitoring and postflight exams for Cooper and the crew wife Trudy and daughters Camala and Janita anticipate the flight with him
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
U.S
Cooper
Gordo
Air Force
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Virgil I. Grissom
John H. Glenn Jr
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
United States
Gemini
Duraon
Europe
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Walter Schirra
Schirra
Robert B. Voas
Manned Spacecraft Center
Atlas
Atlantic
Pacific
Trudy
Camala
Janita