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	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 9, 2019. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that after astronaut Gordon Cooper (pictured) died, his ashes were launched into space three times?
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Google shows 10x more "Gordon Cooper" with "astronaut" than "Gordo Cooper", so apparently the nickname never caught on as the usual way to refer to him. Stan 23:32, 18 Oct 2003 (UTC)

However, he wasn't the last individual to reach space alone.

Two flights of the X-15 later in 1963 passed the 100 km "edge of space". ... [SpaceShipOne] ...

These two paragraphs are inprecise. If "the last individual" does not rule out non-U.S. astronauts, then China's Yang Liwei and possibly some other Russian astronauts may count. Were there any trips that include "Home Alone" where a single man was on a space station or going home alone where a man went home by himself? -- Toytoy 13:59, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

There are no citations for the supposed quotes. And what's with the strange typography and quotation-mark pictures? Unless this is cleaned up, the whole section should be deleted.

and list of events or milestones without context are meaningless — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.224.34 (talk) 08:10, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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An Astronaut's UFO Experience - Gordon Cooper - YouTube.

He also discusses the film of the UFO landing. He discussed looking at the negatives.

Wikipedia does allow primary sources to be used too.

I don't have time to incorporate this into the article and references. So others with more time might do so. It is at least a backup to the secondary sources. -- Timeshifter (talk) 16:40, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]