Welcome famous widow, Suzan Cooper, wife of famous Mercury astronaut, Gordon Cooper, to our joy-ous club. It was said that he was something of a complainer who had less Gordon even got a little bit mad at me and I just sort of backed off and said, Its your company, the man told the WSJ reporters. his capsule to an ocean landing without the assistance of the usual variety of Elaine C Smith dances with Gordon Cooper, during a dress rehearsal . the University of Hawaii for three years after the war and obtained an ROTC History: Cooper was one of the first seven U.S. astronauts. According to court documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Cooper denied any wrongdoing and blamed all of the failures on each of the towns. Investors, both corporate, government, and individuals, gave companies endorsed or organized by Cooper over $2 million during the 1980s and 1990s, and everybody lost every dime. Statesman or Shitposter? By then Cooper was already negotiating with other towns. Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the seven original U.S. astronauts, who made the nation's first manned spaceflights and became known as possessors of "The Right Stuff," died yesterday at his home in. Investors were eager to hear Coopers astronaut stories but less willing to part with money (the experiences of investors in Coopers earlier ventures had apparently become widely known), so eventually Bubis and other members of the XL board of directors decided to divert their efforts into projects more likely to make a profit. /*-->