Несмотря на улыбку, лётные костюмы были не особо удобными. (Источник: НАСА)
«Простите, ребята, а нет ли способа поудобнее?» Это меня поднимают на военно-морском вертолёте во время операции по спасению в Атлантике после миссии «Джемини-5». (Источник: НАСА)
На вершине ракеты «Титан» — снова в космос на «Джемини-5» в ходе восьмисуточной миссии. (Источник: НАСА)
Мой напарник по «Джемини-5» Пит Конрад (слева) со мной на площадке № 19 незадолго до нашей восьмисуточной миссии. (Источник: НАСА)
Астронавты «Меркурий-7» в лётном снаряжении у реактивного самолёта. Слева направо: лейтенант М. Скотт Карпентер, ВМС США; капитан Л. Гордон Купер-младший, ВВС США; подполковник Джон Х. Гленн-младший, Корпус морской пехоты США; капитан Вёрджил И. «Гас» Гриссом, ВВС США; капитан-лейтенант Уолтер М. Ширра-младший, ВМС США; капитан-лейтенант Алан Б. Шепард-младший, ВМС США; капитан Дональд К. «Дик» Слейтон, ВВС США. (Источник: НАСА)
INDEX
abort-sensing and implementation system (ASIS), 25
Advanced Technology Group, 216-17, 224-25, 227-32, 234, 257-61
Africa, 133, 140-45
Air Force, U.S., 24, 67, 77, 101, 103-4, 110, 179, 182-83, 245
UFO sightings in, 80-86, 88-91
Air Force Experimental Flight Test School, 82
Air Force Institute of Technology, 22, 82
Air Force One, 133, 140
Alaska, Post-Rogers crash in, 99-100
Albuquerque Regional Flight Control, 77
Aldrin, Edwin (Buzz), 76, 173, 177
Allen, Paul, 78
alpha state, 244
Anders, Bill, 171
Apollo, 33, 47, 72, 119, 127, 135, 142, 158, 161-73, 178
extra-vehicular activity and, 156-57
near cancellation of, 166-67
post-fire review of, 167-68
spacecraft design for, 169-70
stages in, 170-71
Apollo 1, 161-66, 168, 229, 231
Apollo 7, 171, 179
Apollo 8, 171-72
Apollo 9, 172
Apollo 10, 172, 177, 179
Apollo 11, 172-73
Apollo 12, 267
Apollo 13, 177-79, 181
Apollo 14, 181
Apollo 18, 265
Apollo Review Board, 163-64
Apollo-Soyuz, 181
Area 51, 131-32
Arizona, USS, 64
Arlington National Cemetery, 165-66
Armstrong, Neil, 76, 109, 173, 179
Army, U.S., 148, 152
Army Air Corps, 94
Army Ballistic Missile Agency, U.S., 155
Army National Guard, 93
Army Redstone Arsenal, 22-23, 148, 152
Army ROTC, 102, 103
Askania-camera precision landing system, 82-85
astronaut-pilots, NASA qualifications for, 9-10, 15-16
Atlas rockets, 9, 22, 118, 248
in Faith 7
flight, 41, 43-45
tests of, 2-3, 4, 19, 28, 31, 156
Titan compared with, 119
Atomic Energy Commission, 237
Aurora 7, 35
automatic direction finder (ADF), 98
B-l bombers, 101
backup systems, 25-26
Backus, Peter, 79
balloon experiment, 47
balloons, weather, UFOs as, 83, 90, 91
Barnes, Pancho, 100-101
Bassett, Charles, II, 177-78
Bean, Alan, 267
Beechcraft, 106
Belyaev, Pavel, 134-40
Beregovoy, Georgiy, 139
Bergman, Jules, 264-65
biocosmic transducer, human as, 243
Bittick, James, 82-85
Blanchard, William, 83
Bonanzas, 105-6
Borman, Frank, 76, 171
brain, ELF waves and, 243-45
Brand, Vance, 181
Braun, Maria von, 150
Braun, Wernher von, 23, 147-60, 171, 265
in Germany, 147, 149-52
lobbying of, 167, 175
Mars and, 148, 174
post-NASA career of, 159-60
Brooks Air Force Base, 159
Buckley, Charles, 178
Buhler, Walter, 202-4
Bush, George, 113
Bykovsky, Valery E, 127
By Rocket to Space (Oberth), 149
Cape Canaveral, 1-6, 64, 114, 140, 152
as Cape Kennedy, 161-62, 168
Hangar S at, 1-2, 37, 38, 118
JFK’s visits to, 70, 158-59
carbon dioxide, 53, 55, 59
Carpenter, Malcolm S. (Scott), 2-4, 17, 20-21, 61, 67, 119
space flight of, 35, 49
Carter, Jimmy, 192-93
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 220
centrifuge, 23-24, 27, 34, 42-43, 44
Cernan, Eugene, 172, 178
Chaffee, Roger, 163-65
Cheops Pyramid, 244
cherrypicker, emergency, 117, 118
chimpanzees, launching of, 11, 27-28, 33, 57
China, Communist, 124-25
Choko Indians, 111-13
Close Encounters of the Second Kind, 197
cockpit layout, 21, 42, 120
Collins, Michael, 172, 173
Colorado, University of, 88
Commandaire biplanes, 94-95
communications, 20, 98, 164, 215, 218-19
blackout periods in, 51, 60-61, 121, 128
of Faith 7, 42, 51-52, 53, 55, 57-63
Faraday experiments and, 220-22
telepathic, 218-23, 227-30, 236, 237, 251-52
wireless, 235-36, 240-46
Condon, Edward, 88
Congress, U.S., 9, 24, 72, 78, 89, 114, 167, 237
Cooper’s speeches to, 64-70, 134
opposition to space program in, 174-76
Conrad, Charles (Pete), 105-6, 109-31, 267
“8 Days or Bust” and, 113-15, 129
goodwill mission of, 133-45, 181
Conrad, Jane, 141
Conrad, Nancy, 267
Constantine II, King of Greece, 134
control system, 20, 22
cooling system, 46, 53, 59
of space shuttle, 227, 229-32
Cooper, Camala (daughter), 15, 64, 103, 107, 141, 266
Cooper, Colleen (daughter), 202, 266
Cooper, Elizabeth (daughter), 202, 266
Cooper, Hattie Lee Herd (mother), 71, 93-97, 100, 102, 103, 107
Cooper, Janita (daughter), 16, 64, 103, 107, 141, 266
Cooper, Leroy Gordon, Sr. (father), 93-98, 101-4
cancer and death of, 106-8
Cooper, L. Gordon, Jr.:
auto racing of, 178, 266
backup assignments of, 177-82
called to Washington, D.C., 7-8, 10-12
as CapCom, 119
centrifuge training of, 23-24, 42-43, 44
chosen for Project Mercury, 14-16
Congressional speeches of, 64-70, 134
dangerous flight situations of, 66, 105-6
at Disney, 211-15, 225, 266
early flying of, 94-97
education of, 22, 61,81, 82, 96, 97, 102-3
“8 Days or Bust” and, 113-15
enlistment of, 101-2
extraterrestrial spacecraft ride promised to, 254-55, 259
family background of, 69, 71, 93-97
famous flyers met by, 97-101
first flight of, 94
flight training of, 103-4
goodwill mission of, 133-45, 181
in “launch day in the life of an astronaut” TV segment, 5
on launch mornings, 4-6, 115-17, 119-20
marriages and marital problems of, 15-16, 17, 71, 103, 202
in NASA, 1-6, 15-39, 41-53, 55-72;
see also Faith 7;Gemini 5
NASA’s testing of, 11-14
near bumping of, 37-39
in Panama, 109-13
photography of, 48, 49-50, 129-31
in Presidential Honor Guard, 102
press conferences of, 16-18, 64-66
religious background of, 69-70
retirement of, 182-83, 202
space endurance record of, 126-27
sports interests of, 102, 106-7
as test pilot, 7-8, 11, 14, 22, 82
treasure hunting of, 185-90
Cooper, L. Gordon, Jr. (cont.)
U-2 and, 7, 14, 132
UFO sightings of, 80-81, 85, 194, 248
UN testimony of, 198-99
Cooper, Marcus F., 8
Cooper, Mrs. Phillip Henry (grandmother), 71
Cooper, Phillip Henry (grandfather), 71
Cooper, Suzan (second wife), 202, 254-55, 266
Cooper, Trudy (first wife), 15-16, 17, 64, 72, 103, 107, 141, 202
