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Good articleGordon Cooper has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Good topic starGordon Cooper is part of the Mercury Seven series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
February 5, 2019Good article nomineeListed
July 29, 2019Good topic candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 9, 2019.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that after astronaut Gordon Cooper (pictured) died, his ashes were launched into space three times?
Current status: Good article

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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)

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There are no citations for the supposed quotes. And what's with the strange typography and quotation-mark pictures? Unless this is cleaned up, the whole section should be deleted.

and list of events or milestones without context are meaningless — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.224.34 (talk) 08:10, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Youtube of Gordon Cooper discussing the UFOs he saw

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An Astronaut's UFO Experience - Gordon Cooper - YouTube.

He also discusses the film of the UFO landing. He discussed looking at the negatives.

Wikipedia does allow primary sources to be used too.

I don't have time to incorporate this into the article and references. So others with more time might do so. It is at least a backup to the secondary sources. -- Timeshifter (talk) 16:40, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]