[DOC] [TLE] Gordon Cooper - Wikipedia [PAR] Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. (March 6, 1927  October 4, 2004), (Col, USAF
), better ... He was the first American to sleep in space during that 34-hour 
mission and was the last ... In 1965, Cooper flew as Command Pilot of Gemini 5. 
.... Cooper was the first astronaut to make a second orbital flight and later served 
as... [DOC] [TLE] Apollo program - Wikipedia [PAR] Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last in 
December 1972. In these six spaceflights, twelve men walked on the Moon. [DOC] [TLE] March 23, 1965 Launch of First Crewed Gemini Flight | NASA [PAR] Mar 23, 2015 ... NASA's two-man Gemini spaceflights demonstrated that astronauts could ... 
Veteran Mercury astronaut Grissom was selected as command pilot of ... He also 
commanded STS-1, the first shuttle mission. ... Last Updated: July 30, 2015 ... 
years the program's five spacecraft carried people into orbit repeatedly,... [DOC] [TLE] Gemini's First Docking Turns to Wild Ride in Orbit | NASA [PAR] Behind Scott is Chief Astronaut Alan Shepard, America's first man in space. ... He 
later was command module pilot on the Apollo 9 flight in 1969 and .... Hodge 
decided to have Gemini VIII re-enter after one more orbit and land within range 
..... X was John Young, a veteran of the first mission in America's two-man 
spacecraft. [DOC] [TLE] Gemini 5, 50 Years Ago -- First Men in Orbit | National Review [PAR] Aug 29, 2015 ... En Route to the First Moon Landing  Gemini 5, Fifty Years Ago ... Geminis 1 
and 2 tested the Gemini hardware and the Titan rocket that put it in orbit. ... The 
two men chosen to the fly the mission were Leroy Gordon Cooper and ... Gordo 
Cooper made the last Mercury flight, a mission from which he had... [DOC] [TLE] Project Mercury: America's 1st Manned Space Program - Space.com [PAR] Feb 10, 2014 ... Mercury was a NASA program to prove that astronauts could function ... for the 
more challenging orbital missions of Gemini and the moon missions ... Early 
Mercury flights ... When he lifted off on May 5, 1961, for a suborbital flight, his ... 
NASA focused the last two missions on making sure that spacecraft and... [DOC] [TLE] Humans in Space | National Air and Space Museum [PAR] The Mercury and Gemini missions carefully prepared the way for the Apollo lunar 
missions. ... that first put Americans in space, the one-man Mercury capsule (front
) and its ... The last four were orbital flights and were boosted by Atlas rockets. ... 
first U.S. piloted spaceflight in the Mercury Freedom 7 spacecraft on May 5, 1961
... [DOC] [TLE] NASA History: Project Gemini | Kennedy Space Center [PAR] The next step in NASA's Space Program, Project Gemini was officially named in 
1962. Its goal: send two astronauts into space simultaneously. ... On March 23, 
1965, veteran Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom and astronaut John Young 
embarked on the first manned flight of the program, Gemini III, a nearly five-hour 
mission to... [DOC] [TLE] Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan  Page 9 [PAR] Slayton Slayton, 42, was already assigned as pilot of a Mercury flight' when ... In 
the rescheduling of flights, Schirra and his crew were named to back up the ... He 
also commended Gemini 5, becoming the first man to make two orbital .... Wlk 
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return. [DOC] [TLE] Eight Days or Bust: The Mission of Gemini 5 | Drew Ex Machina [PAR] Aug 21, 2015 ... Demonstrate rendezvous and docking techniques in orbit ... Gemini was a two-
man spacecraft that was roughly conical in shape with a base .... He was a 
veteran of the Faith 7 Mercury flight where he spent over 34 hours in ... The 
Gemini 5 mission would make Cooper the first human to fly into orbit twice. [DOC] [TLE] The 12 Men Who Walked on the Moon | Mental Floss [PAR] Jul 20

Question: A veteran of the last Mercury flight & Gemini 5, he was the 1st man to make 2 orbital flights
Answer: Gordon Cooper