Abstract
Originally scheduled for launch on the morning of Tuesday, 14 May 1963, the MA-9 mission was delayed until the following day as a result of two major problems which occurred during the countdown.
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A full transcript of Cooper’s prayer is reproduced in Chapter 7.
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Gordon Cooper, Life magazine article, “Everyone was in a sweat, I was secretly pleased,” issue 7 June 1963, pg. 31
L. Gordon Cooper, “Astronaut’s Formal Technical Debriefing,” from Postlaunch Memorandum Report for Mercury-Atlas No. 9 (MA-9), NASA MSC, Cape Canaveral, FL, 24 June 1963
Philip Dodd, Chicago Tribune newspaper article, “Cooper Orbits on in Sleep,” issue 16 May 1963
L. Gordon Cooper, “Astronaut’s Summary Flight Report,” from Results of the Fourth Manned Orbital Flight, May 15/16, 1963, NASA Special Publication SP-45, Washington, DC, October 1963
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L. Gordon Cooper, “Astronaut’s Formal Technical Debriefing,” from Postlaunch Memorandum Report for Mercury-Atlas No. 9 (MA-9), NASA MSC, Cape Canaveral, FL, 24 June 1963
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Burgess, C. (2016). Last man up in Mercury. In: Faith 7. Springer Praxis Books(). Praxis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30563-9_4
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