Word: gordo
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Beyond Expectations. The flight proved more conclusively than anything before it that man is adaptable to the challenges and rigors of space. Though it would be many days before doctors could tell whether "Gordo" Cooper and "Pete" Conrad suffered any really bad effects from the prolonged weightlessness and confinement in their spaceship, they appeared to have nothing worse than stiff joints, heavy beards and nagging itches. Cooper apparently came through better than on his first, 22-orbit flight two years ago; his heartbeat averaged 89 then, about 70 this time...
...that stage of the flight, the astronauts were sleeping about six hours in each 24 and eating three daily meals of bite-size, freeze-dried food, which they rehydrated with a water pistol. They munched on cold spaghetti and meatballs, chicken sandwiches, and peanut cubes. They were feeling fine. "Gordo and Pete," Dr. Berry called up, "you've had 100 hours now, and all the [health] data look really excellent. All the rates and pressures are still well within normal range." Even the "lack of blue-bag activity" did not bother the medical men; Conrad had had only...
...from liftoff. Sitting at his control panel, Kraft said just one word: "Zap!"-a Buck Rogers exclamation to describe the blast of space guns. Then he got on the line to Cooper: "How does it feel for the U.S. to be a world record holder, Gordo?" Replied the laconic spaceman: "At last...
Stepping Out. That seven-day trip, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced last week, will be manned by "Gordo" Cooper, 37, and Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., 34, a Navy pilot who learned his aeronautical engineering at Princeton. The Cooper-Conrad flight will be the most critical one of the Gemini program, since a round trip to the moon, as envisioned in the Project Apollo series, will also last about seven days, and NASA officials want to be able to study the effects of such a long period of weightlessness on humans. Plans also call for the men to release...
...talk about brains and dames in space is bunk, said Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, 36, back for a home-town celebration in Shawnee, Okla. "If there had been a scientist on my flight, I don't think we would have gotten him back." As for the ladies, said Gordo, "to date there have been no women-and I say absolutely zero women-who have qualified to take part in our space program...