[DOC] [TLE] Gordon Cooper - Wikipedia [PAR] Cooper piloted the longest and final Mercury spaceflight in 1963. He was the first American to sleep in space during that 34-hour mission and was the last American to be launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission. In 1965, Cooper flew as Command Pilot of Gemini 5. [DOC] [TLE] Mercury Seven - Wikipedia [PAR] They are also referred to as the Original Seven or Astronaut Group 1. They piloted the manned spaceflights of the Mercury program from May 1961 to May 1963. These seven original American astronauts were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. [DOC] [TLE] Gordon Cooper: Record-Setting Astronaut in Mercury ... - Space.com [PAR] Jan 31, 2014 ... Gordon Cooper had the longest flight among the original Mercury ... It turned out 
to be for NASA's astronaut program  the first applicants ... He piloted Faith 7 
across 22 orbits solo  the last American government astronaut to fly ... his 
historical mission that he decided to take a brief nap on the launch pad. [DOC] [TLE] Remembering Gordon Cooper | NASA [PAR] Official portrait of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper ... Cooper's Mercury flight set 
a U.S. endurance record at the time, and he became the first astronaut to sleep in 
... administrator for Manned Space Flight, had high praise for the launch teams at 
.... commanded the final moon landing mission, Apollo 17, in December 1972. [DOC] [TLE] Mercury Crewed Flights Summary | NASA [PAR] Nov 30, 2006 ... Mercury, America's first human space flight program, introduced the nation to its 
first ... Astronaut: L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. Flight Summary: 34 hours, 19 minutes, 49 
seconds - The last ..... Alan Shepard was chosen for the first manned Mercury 
launch, becoming the first American to fly in space on May 5, 1961. [DOC] [TLE] Glenn Orbits the Earth | NASA [PAR] Feb 16, 2012 ... He was joined by Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, 
... He became the third American in space and the first to orbit Earth. .... Glenn 
made America's first manned Earth-orbital spaceflight on Feb. ... flight on 
February 20, 1962, Mercury program astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works in... [DOC] [TLE] What Was the Gemini Program? | NASA [PAR] Before the first astronauts flew on it, it launched without a crew so that NASA ... 
The Gemini 4 mission included the first U.S. spacewalk. ... NASA had been using 
three orbiters when the space shuttle program stopped. .... The first manned 
mission to the moon was Apollo 8. .... Gordon Cooper flew on the last Mercury 
mission. [DOC] [TLE] Humans in Space | National Air and Space Museum [PAR] The Mercury and Gemini programs were the early U.S. efforts in human ... June 
1965: Astronaut Edward White made the first U.S. spacewalk on the Gemini IV ... (
back row) Alan B. Shepard Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. 
... rocket on the pad before launch of the first American manned space flight. [DOC] [TLE] Gordon Cooper, the Astronaut - Gordon Cooper Technology Center [PAR] Home  Full-Time Programs  Business ... in the Mercury program. Gordon Cooper 
was launched into space on May 15, 1963 aboard the Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) 
spacecraft, the last Mercury mission. ... He was the first American astronaut to 
sleep not only in orbit but on the launch pad during a countdown. Towards the 
end... [DOC] [TLE] Gordon Cooper | American astronaut | Britannica.com [PAR] Sep 9, 2016 ... Cooper resigned from the Air Force and the space program in 1970 and entered 
... The last Mercury flight, Faith 7, launched May 15, 1963, carrying L. ... 
completing the sixth and last of the Mercury manned spaceflights. ... an eight-day 
endurance mission, becoming the first person to make two orbital flights. [DOC] [TLE] Mercury MA-9 - Encyclopedia Astronautica [PAR] Final Mercury mission, Faith 7 , was piloted by Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, ... 
Sixty seconds upward, MA-9 initiated its pitch program, and Cooper felt the ...

Question: Gordon Cooper was the last astronaut launched in this first U.S. manned space program
Answer: Mercury