as pilot, 16, 103, 202
Cooper patch, 115
cosmonauts’ U.S. tour, 139-40
creative visualization, 236-37
Cronkite, Walter, 264-65
Dana, Bill, 21
Debus, Kurt, 153
defecation in space, 125
Defense Department, U.S., 84-85, 87
defibrillator units, 239
digital electronic flight controls, 223
Disney Imagineering, 211-15, 225, 266
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 163
Donlon, Charles, 15
Dornberger, Walter, 150
drogues, 62, 139
Earhart, Amelia, 97-98, 100
Edge of Reality, 76
Edison, Thomas, 233, 234, 240
Edwards Air Force Base, 7-8, 11, 14-15, 22, 38, 132, 223
Happy Bottom Riding Club at, 100, 101
UFO sightings at, 82-86, 90-91
“8 Days or Bust,” 113-15, 129
Einstein, Albert, 258
Eisele, Donn, 179-80
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 57, 152
electricity, 239
AC vs. DC, 233-34
electromagnetic propulsion system, self-generating, 257-58
energy technology, 214, 216, 233-35, 237-46
England, 141, 143, 185, 257
UFO sightings in, 88
in World War II, 151, 153-54
Enola Gay, 83
Enos (chimpanzee), 33
Epcot Center, 213
escape towers, 4, 25, 28, 31, 43, 116, 117, 118
Ethiopia, 140-42
Explorer I, 152
extra-sensory perception (ESP), 243
extra-vehicular activity (EVA; space walk):
Soviet, 134, 136-37
U.S., 119, 156-57, 177, 267
extreme-low-frequency (ELF) waves, 242-46
F-8 Crusaders, 21
F-84 Thunderjets, 80
F-86 Sabrejets, 80-81, 193-94
F-102 fighters, 7, 14, 24-25, 38
F-106 fighters, 7, 14, 31-32, 192
Faith 7, 37, 41-53, 126
clock of, 43, 53
communications system of, 42, 51-52, 53, 55, 57-63
cooling system of, 46, 53, 59
countdown and liftoff of, 41-43
Earth objects distinguished from, 46, 47-48, 66, 124
experiments performed on, 47, 49-50
false report of UFO sighting during, 75-76
manual reentry of, 56-64, 73
negative 34-angular-degree of, 45, 60
oxygen consumption on, 50, 53
panel light problems of, 51-52
parachutes of, 61-62
sleep period on, 48, 49-50, 65
total power failure on, 52-53, 55-56
Faraday, Michael, 221, 240
Faraday cages, 220-22, 245
Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), 95-96, 168
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 246
Feoktistov, Konstantin, 139
fire extinguishers, 164-65
“fireflies,” 46-47, 65
First Global Conference on the Future, 261
fishing, 97, 106-7
509th Bomb Group, 83
525th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 80-81
flashing light experiment, 47
flight simulators, 23, 26, 35, 43, 55-56
food, 50, 63-64, 110-11, 112
Ford, Gerald, 163
Frederica, Queen Mother of Greece, 134-35
Freedom 7, 30
Freeman, Theodore, 178
Friendship 7 33-34
Fry, Dan, 247-54, 259
fuel cells, 120-24, 144, 213
Fulton, Jim, 24
Galaxy Aviation, 266
Gargarin, Yuri, 28
Geller, Uri, 220
Gemini, 33, 47, 72, 105, 135, 153
Mercury compared with, 109, 116, 120, 124, 125, 128, 138
Gemini 3 (Molly Brown), 118-19
Gemini 4, 77-78, 119, 199
Gemini 5, 109-33,213,267
delay in launching of, 115-17
“8 Days or Bust” and, 113-15, 129
film confiscated from, 130-32
fuel cell of, 120-24
launching of, 119-20
meteorite shower during, 125-26
onboard radar in, 120, 125
Panama training for, 109-13
reentry and recovery of, 127-29
wing of, 116-17
Gemini 9-A, 178
“Gemini Nine,” 109
Gemini 11, 267
Gemini 12, 177
General Accounting Office, 83
General Electric, 213, 234
General Motors (GM), 2, 140, 213
German rocket scientists, 5, 22-23, 147-60
see also Braun, Wernher von
Germany, West, Cooper in, 80-81, 148
Germany Rocket Society, 149
Gettys, Jack, 82-85
G-forces, 43, 44, 59, 60, 87
Gilmore (lion cub), 99
Gilruth, Robert, 26-27, 66-68, 114, 115, 122, 180-81
Glenn, John H., Jr., 2-4, 17-18, 21, 27, 33, 67, 72, 105, 119
Faith 7 reentry and, 57-60
“fireflies” of, 46-47, 65
1962 mission of, 4, 33-34, 35, 46-47, 49, 179
as politician, 21, 119
in return to space, 264
Glennan, T. Keith, 16-17
Goddard, Rob, 149
Goldwater, Barry, 193-94
Gordon, Richard, 267
Greece, 133-39, 181
Grenada, 196
Grissom, Betty, 165
Grissom, Mark, 165-66
Grissom, Scott, 165-66
Grissom, Virgil I. (Gus), 2-4, 17, 18, 22, 27, 159
Apollo 1 and, 161-66, 168
in Gemini mission, 118-19
in second suborbital mission, 30-33, 152, 179
gymnasts, considered for space travel, 56-57
Haile Selassie, 140-42
Ham (chimpanzee), 27-28
Hangar S, 1-2, 37, 38, 118
Hansen, Dowd, 242-46
happily-married requirement, 15-16, 71, 179
Happy Bottom Riding Club, 100, 101
Harz Mountains, 151
Hastie, B. J., 86
Hawaii, 61, 64
Hawaii, University of, 61, 102-3
heat shield, 34, 45, 60
Herd, George Washington, 69
Herd, Hattie Lee, see Cooper, Hattie Lee Herd
Herd, Mrs. George Washington, 71
Hewlett, William, 78
Himmler, Heinrich, 150
Hitler, Adolf, 150-51
Holmgren, Scott, 202
House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 24, 237
“How to Build a Tesla Transmitter” (King), 237
“Huntsville Gang,” 153
Hynek, J. Allen, 194-98, 200
Imboten, Otis, 186
Ingersoll, J. L., 87
“In Search of Gordon Cooper’s UFOs,” 75-76
instrument panels, 21, 42, 43, 50, 51-52, 62, 123-24
inventors, amateur, 211-13
ionosphere, 241, 242
Jacobs, Al, 228
James, Bennett, 231-32, 262
Johnson, Lady Bird, 113
Johnson, Lyndon B., 72, 114, 131, 133, 141, 153, 163, 167
Johnson Space Center, 265
Judge Advocate General (JAG), 94, 101
Junkers bombers, 153-54
Jupiter missiles, 148
Kearsarge, USS, 61-64, 70
Kennedy, John F., Jr., 99
Kennedy, John F. (President), 26, 39, 70-71, 158-59, 161
death of, 131, 159
Moon landing and, 30, 71, 121, 152-53, 159, 162, 173
Kenya, 143-45
Kenyatta, Jomo, 143-44
Keutner, Joaquin (Jack), 153-55
KGB, 133, 139
Kiko Rock, 143
Korean War, 152
Kraft, Chris, 58-59, 123
Kranz, Gene, 165, 183
Lady Bird, 113
Lake Champlain, USS, 129
land recoveries, Soviet, 137-39
Langley Air Force Base, 15, 19-27
Launch Control, 114, 116, 164, 165
LeMay, Curtis, 182-83
Leonov, Aleksey, 134-40, 181
Liberty Bell 7, 31-33, 118
Life, 67, 71
Lindbergh, Charles A., 69, 71, 167
Linde, Greg, 201, 208
Loring Air Force Base, 191, 192
Lovelace Clinic (later Mayo Clinic), 12-13
Lovell, Jim, 76, 171-72, 177
Lowe, Nancy, 19-20
MacArthur, Douglas, 89
McClellan Air Force Base, 86
McDivitt, James, 77-78, 119, 172
McDonnell, Jim, 122
McDonnell Aircraft, 8, 41-42, 122
McNab, Robert, 86-87
Malmstrom Air Force Base, 191, 192
manned missions, U.S., 67
delay of, 27-28
first, 28-30, 32, 38
Manned Space Center, 114, 177
Marconi, Guglielmo, 235, 240
Mariner 4, 174
Marines, U.S., 63, 67, 179
Cooper’s enlistment in, 101-2
Mars, 148, 174-75, 263-64
Marshall Space Flight Center, 147-48
Masai warriors, 144
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 51
Mau Mau uprising, 143
Mayflower (presidential yacht), 93
mechanical astronauts, 28
Mercury (winged messenger), 10
Mercury Control Center, 25, 36
Faith 7 flight and, 41-43, 45, 47, 49, 52-60, 72
