Colin O'Donoghue - The Right Stuff #1: The Story about the Mercury Seven - Page 2

sourburst · 07-25-2019, 08:56 AM

Added tags!

**LilMouse** · 07-25-2019, 06:30 PM

Thanks, Jade.
The video has been added.

**x♥xBeautiful_Butterflyx♥x** · 07-26-2019, 08:04 AM

Thanks hun...

**LilMouse** · 07-27-2019, 09:32 AM

I was reading about the man Colin is going to play and it sounds fascinating. I can't wait to see this on screen

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In 1963 Cooper piloted the longest and last Mercury spaceflight, Mercury-Atlas 9. During that 34-hour mission he became the first American to spend an entire day in space, the first to sleep in space, and the last American launched on an entirely solo orbital mission. Despite a series of severe equipment failures, he managed to successfully complete the mission under manual control, guiding his spacecraft, which he named Faith 7, to a splashdown just 4 miles (6.4 km) ahead of the recovery ship. Cooper became the first astronaut to make a second orbital flight when he flew as Command Pilot of Gemini 5 in 1965. Along with Pilot Pete Conrad, he set a new space endurance record by traveling 3,312,993 miles (5,331,745 km) in 190 hours and 56 minutes—just short of eight days—showing that astronauts could survive in space for the length of time necessary to go from the Earth to the Moon and back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercur...#Group_members

**x♥xBeautiful_Butterflyx♥x** · 07-28-2019, 03:27 AM

That does sounds really interesting...

**LilMouse** · 07-28-2019, 07:40 PM

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He started attending the University of Hawaii, and bought his own J-3 Cub. There he met his first wife, Trudy B. Olson of Seattle, Washington, through the local flying club. She was active in flying, and would later become the only wife of a Mercury astronaut to have a pilot's license. They were married on August 29, 1947 in Honolulu when both were 20 years old. They had two daughters: Camala Keoki, born in 1948, and Janita Lee, born in 1950.[2][4][8]

This sounds awesome too. Go girl!