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Gordon \'Gordo\' Cooper
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I’ve the normal desire experienced by everybody who’s ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster. Flying alone, I’ve often wondered what it would be like to go way on up there and see the earth from a really great height.
Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper
Mercury 9 astronaut and first American to spend an entire day in space, the first to sleep in space, and the last American launched on an entirely solo orbital mission. Life magazine, 14 September 1959.
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Who’s the best pilot you ever saw? … You’re lookin’ at him.
Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper
Played by Dennis Quaid, in the 1983 movie The Right Stuff, written by Philip Kaufman. The line is not in the original book by Tom Wolfe, but does sum up the fun-loving gung-ho attitude of the youngest of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.
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Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight — for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.
Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper
Prayer while orbiting the earth in Faith 7, last of the Mercury flights, 15 May 1963. Quoted in The New York Times, 22 May 1963. 
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I live for that exhilarating moment when I’m in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky.
Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper
Aerospace Engineer, fighter pilot, test pilot, youngest of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. Leap of Faith, 2000. Seen here in 1963 with his Beechcraft Bonanza: 
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