Posted: 10/5/2004 12:00:00 AM Reads: 129 Submitted By:clayroy Category: People Source: www.cnn.com
(CNN) -- Leroy Gordon Cooper, one of the nation’s first astronauts who once set a space endurance record by traveling more than 3.3 million miles aboard Gemini 5 in 1965, died on Monday, NASA said. He was 77.
