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...DIED. GORDON COOPER, 77, U.S. astronaut who flew the last mission of the pioneering Mercury space program; in Ventura, California. Cooper set records for time spent and distance traveled in space; his 191-hour Gemini mission in 1963 helped demonstrate that a future moon trip was possible. With his career cut short because of what he called "a lot of in-house politics," he retired from the Air Force in 1970 and became president of a company that tested and raced cars and pioneered the installation of jet engines. Once asked who the best fighter pilot was, he answered...
...HADN'T ACHIEVED SUCH SUCCESS AS A SWIMMER, WOULD YOU BE DOING SOMETHING ELSE? I'd probably be an astronaut, just to have the thrill of seeing what it would be like to go around the earth like that. At one time I fantasized about being the first Olympic astronaut. But I think I would get an unparalleled amount of resistance on that from my family...
...would have to become an American citizen in order to be an astronaut for NASA, which Mohamed says is an unlikely prospect. And though she also studied Russian here with the hope of joining the Russian space program, their citizenship criteria will likely also keep her from entering outer space...
...after her extensive laboratory work here, Mohamed says her desire to become an astronaut has dwindled. “With the money that they spend on that, they could do so much [more laboratory research],” she says...
Though the prospects of developing a Zimbabwean space program in the near future may be dim, Mohamed doesn’t have to think twice about what she’d do if she did become an astronaut...