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As of 25 October 2025, 03:36 (UTC), this page is active and open for discussion. An FAC coordinator will be responsible for closing the nomination.

Nominator(s): Hawkeye7 (discuss) and QuicksmartTortoise513 (talk) 01:17, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about Gordon Cooper, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:17, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Early life and education

• “the only child of Leroy Gordon Cooper Sr. and his wife, Hattie Lee Herd” – fine, but “his wife” could be dropped; “Hattie Lee Herd” is sufficient.
• “Pacific theater” → “Pacific Theater”

MSincccc (talk) 13:30, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for commenting! I have capitalised “Pacific Theater”. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:26, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Later life

Links made. QuicksmartTortoise513 (talk) 16:26, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

UFO sightings

• You could mention the full form of “NASA” at least once in the article.
• Introduce “Bruce Henderson” briefly?
• “ground breaking technology” → “groundbreaking technology” (compound adjective).

MSincccc (talk) 13:59, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Full form written. I’m not sure what you mean by introducing Bruce Henderson. Also, where’s the term “ground breaking technology” used? QuicksmartTortoise513 (talk) 21:03, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• By introducing Henderson, I meant specifying his role in the article — as “the author” or the “journalist”.
• …understanding how someone so connected with ground breaking technology and science…

MSincccc (talk) 03:36, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Three weeks in and this has gained little attention. Unless this nomination makes significant further progress towards a consensus to promote over the next three or four days I am afraid that it is liable to be archived. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:49, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I should get to this the next couple of days.–Wehwalt (talk) 10:21, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• No problem if the source doesn’t specify, but “He unofficially soloed when he was 12 years old” is interesting — do we know if he just took the plane up without anyone’s permission at all?

  His father let him fly the plane. Set him up with cushions so he could see out the windows and blocks on the pedals.

  By the time I was eight, with the help of blocks Dad built for the rudder pedals and lots of cushions so I could see out the window, I was allowed to take over the controls from the front seat with Dad behind me in the main cockpit… The head of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) in that region of Oklahoma was a close friend of my father’s (my mother and father seemed to know just about everybody in the area). He knew I was flying without a licence – I was a long way from sixteen, the mandatory age to get a licence – and never said a thing. By the time I was twelve I was flying solo, even though I had not yet had any formal lessons.

  Added a bit more about this. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:05, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Do we know why Marcus Cooper recommended that Cooper not volunteer for astronaut training?

  “I don’t want my best pilots involved in some idiotic program.” Added this.

• “however, this debacle did not make Cooper popular with senior NASA management”: “debacle” seems a bit strong — maybe just “incident”?

  Changed as suggested. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:05, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Did Cooper buzz Hanger S because of the argument with Williams?

  Yes. Clarified this. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:05, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Suggest retitling the “Later life” section, since some of it relates to his activities while still an astronaut. Perhaps “Other activities and later life”?

  Changed as suggested. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:05, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Are date available for his involvement with GCR and Teletest?

  Yes. Added. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:05, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• “The ashes were then launched on the Explorers orbital mission on August 3, 2008″: suggest linking “Explorers” to Celestis#Flights.

  Linked. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:05, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• “The 2017 Discovery Channel docu-series Cooper’s Treasure followed by Darrell Miklos as he searched through Cooper’s files to discover the location of the suspected shipwrecks”: something wrong with the syntax here — a missing word?

  Deleted “by”. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:05, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Suggest combining the last three short paragraphs.

  Reordered and combined the short paragraphs. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:05, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks very good. Mike Christie (talk – contribs – library) 13:04, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Mike Christie (talk – contribs – library) 21:32, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]