Early life [ edit] administrator Sean O'Keefe said. The world knew him as Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., a space pioneer who set endurance records in both his Mercury Faith 7 flight and his Gemini 5 mission. He was there, all right (and she didnt even think to take photos, sadly) but the model was covered with dust and had no power connection and hadnt flown in years. Cooper just couldnt figure out where the real merchandise had disappeared to, and Smith died before explaining it to him. James Oberg is a retired space shuttle Mission Control specialist and a widely published author of spaceflight around the world. Most recently she served as President of its Global Legal Business, based in New York, where she led the transformation of its online information service into an AI-enabled suite of digital and SaaS offerings. posted 11-20-2020 05:39 PM. This is my life now, and it will be my life until I pass it on to somebody else.. Cooper discovered several anomalies that were too small to be nuclear silos, Miklos explains in the first episode of the series, which premieres April 18. All too often, heroes dont age well, so compassionate historians avert their eyes from the twilight years of such luminaries, as they have with Cooper and his sad fall from grace within the astronaut corps. Mr. Cooper was said to have believed that frictions within the space program [CDATA[/* >