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Несмотря на улыбку, лётные костюмы были не особо удобными. (Источник: НАСА)

«Простите, ребята, а нет ли способа поудобнее?» Это меня поднимают на военно-морском вертолёте во время операции по спасению в Атлантике после миссии «Джемини-5». (Источник: НАСА)

На вершине ракеты «Титан» — снова в космос на «Джемини-5» в ходе восьмисуточной миссии. (Источник: НАСА)

Мой напарник по «Джемини-5» Пит Конрад (слева) со мной на площадке № 19 незадолго до нашей восьмисуточной миссии. (Источник: НАСА)

Астронавты «Меркурий-7» в лётном снаряжении у реактивного самолёта. Слева направо: лейтенант М. Скотт Карпентер, ВМС США; капитан Л. Гордон Купер-младший, ВВС США; подполковник Джон Х. Гленн-младший, Корпус морской пехоты США; капитан Вёрджил И. «Гас» Гриссом, ВВС США; капитан-лейтенант Уолтер М. Ширра-младший, ВМС США; капитан-лейтенант Алан Б. Шепард-младший, ВМС США; капитан Дональд К. «Дик» Слейтон, ВВС США. (Источник: НАСА)

INDEX

abort-sensing and implementation system (ASIS), 25

Advanced Technology Group, 216-17, 224-25, 227-32, 234, 257-61

Africa, 133, 140-45

Air Force, U.S., 24, 67, 77, 101, 103-4, 110, 179, 182-83, 245

UFO sightings in, 80-86, 88-91

Air Force Experimental Flight Test School, 82

Air Force Institute of Technology, 22, 82

Air Force One, 133, 140

Alaska, Post-Rogers crash in, 99-100

Albuquerque Regional Flight Control, 77

Aldrin, Edwin (Buzz), 76, 173, 177

Allen, Paul, 78

alpha state, 244

Anders, Bill, 171

Apollo, 33, 47, 72, 119, 127, 135, 142, 158, 161-73, 178

extra-vehicular activity and, 156-57

near cancellation of, 166-67

post-fire review of, 167-68

spacecraft design for, 169-70

stages in, 170-71

Apollo 1, 161-66, 168, 229, 231

Apollo 7, 171, 179

Apollo 8, 171-72

Apollo 9, 172

Apollo 10, 172, 177, 179

Apollo 11, 172-73

Apollo 12, 267

Apollo 13, 177-79, 181

Apollo 14, 181

Apollo 18, 265

Apollo Review Board, 163-64

Apollo-Soyuz, 181

Area 51, 131-32

Arizona, USS, 64

Arlington National Cemetery, 165-66

Armstrong, Neil, 76, 109, 173, 179

Army, U.S., 148, 152

Army Air Corps, 94

Army Ballistic Missile Agency, U.S., 155

Army National Guard, 93

Army Redstone Arsenal, 22-23, 148, 152

Army ROTC, 102, 103

Askania-camera precision landing system, 82-85

astronaut-pilots, NASA qualifications for, 9-10, 15-16

Atlas rockets, 9, 22, 118, 248

in Faith 7

flight, 41, 43-45

tests of, 2-3, 4, 19, 28, 31, 156

Titan compared with, 119

Atomic Energy Commission, 237

Aurora 7, 35

automatic direction finder (ADF), 98

B-l bombers, 101

backup systems, 25-26

Backus, Peter, 79

balloon experiment, 47

balloons, weather, UFOs as, 83, 90, 91

Barnes, Pancho, 100-101

Bassett, Charles, II, 177-78

Bean, Alan, 267

Beechcraft, 106

Belyaev, Pavel, 134-40

Beregovoy, Georgiy, 139

Bergman, Jules, 264-65

biocosmic transducer, human as, 243

Bittick, James, 82-85

Blanchard, William, 83

Bonanzas, 105-6

Borman, Frank, 76, 171

brain, ELF waves and, 243-45

Brand, Vance, 181

Braun, Maria von, 150

Braun, Wernher von, 23, 147-60, 171, 265

in Germany, 147, 149-52

lobbying of, 167, 175

Mars and, 148, 174

post-NASA career of, 159-60

Brooks Air Force Base, 159

Buckley, Charles, 178

Buhler, Walter, 202-4

Bush, George, 113

Bykovsky, Valery E, 127

By Rocket to Space (Oberth), 149

Cape Canaveral, 1-6, 64, 114, 140, 152

as Cape Kennedy, 161-62, 168

Hangar S at, 1-2, 37, 38, 118

JFK’s visits to, 70, 158-59

carbon dioxide, 53, 55, 59

Carpenter, Malcolm S. (Scott), 2-4, 17, 20-21, 61, 67, 119

space flight of, 35, 49

Carter, Jimmy, 192-93

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 220

centrifuge, 23-24, 27, 34, 42-43, 44

Cernan, Eugene, 172, 178

Chaffee, Roger, 163-65

Cheops Pyramid, 244

cherrypicker, emergency, 117, 118

chimpanzees, launching of, 11, 27-28, 33, 57

China, Communist, 124-25

Choko Indians, 111-13

Close Encounters of the Second Kind, 197

cockpit layout, 21, 42, 120

Collins, Michael, 172, 173

Colorado, University of, 88

Commandaire biplanes, 94-95

communications, 20, 98, 164, 215, 218-19

blackout periods in, 51, 60-61, 121, 128

of Faith 7, 42, 51-52, 53, 55, 57-63

Faraday experiments and, 220-22

telepathic, 218-23, 227-30, 236, 237, 251-52

wireless, 235-36, 240-46

Condon, Edward, 88

Congress, U.S., 9, 24, 72, 78, 89, 114, 167, 237

Cooper’s speeches to, 64-70, 134

opposition to space program in, 174-76

Conrad, Charles (Pete), 105-6, 109-31, 267

“8 Days or Bust” and, 113-15, 129

goodwill mission of, 133-45, 181

Conrad, Jane, 141

Conrad, Nancy, 267

Constantine II, King of Greece, 134

control system, 20, 22

cooling system, 46, 53, 59

of space shuttle, 227, 229-32

Cooper, Camala (daughter), 15, 64, 103, 107, 141, 266

Cooper, Colleen (daughter), 202, 266

Cooper, Elizabeth (daughter), 202, 266

Cooper, Hattie Lee Herd (mother), 71, 93-97, 100, 102, 103, 107

Cooper, Janita (daughter), 16, 64, 103, 107, 141, 266

Cooper, Leroy Gordon, Sr. (father), 93-98, 101-4

cancer and death of, 106-8

Cooper, L. Gordon, Jr.:

auto racing of, 178, 266

backup assignments of, 177-82

called to Washington, D.C., 7-8, 10-12

as CapCom, 119

centrifuge training of, 23-24, 42-43, 44

chosen for Project Mercury, 14-16

Congressional speeches of, 64-70, 134

dangerous flight situations of, 66, 105-6

at Disney, 211-15, 225, 266

early flying of, 94-97

education of, 22, 61,81, 82, 96, 97, 102-3

“8 Days or Bust” and, 113-15

enlistment of, 101-2

extraterrestrial spacecraft ride promised to, 254-55, 259

family background of, 69, 71, 93-97

famous flyers met by, 97-101

first flight of, 94

flight training of, 103-4

goodwill mission of, 133-45, 181

in “launch day in the life of an astronaut” TV segment, 5

on launch mornings, 4-6, 115-17, 119-20

marriages and marital problems of, 15-16, 17, 71, 103, 202

in NASA, 1-6, 15-39, 41-53, 55-72;

see also Faith 7;Gemini 5

NASA’s testing of, 11-14

near bumping of, 37-39

in Panama, 109-13

photography of, 48, 49-50, 129-31

in Presidential Honor Guard, 102

press conferences of, 16-18, 64-66

religious background of, 69-70

retirement of, 182-83, 202

space endurance record of, 126-27

sports interests of, 102, 106-7

as test pilot, 7-8, 11, 14, 22, 82

treasure hunting of, 185-90

Cooper, L. Gordon, Jr. (cont.)

U-2 and, 7, 14, 132

UFO sightings of, 80-81, 85, 194, 248

UN testimony of, 198-99

Cooper, Marcus F., 8

Cooper, Mrs. Phillip Henry (grandmother), 71

Cooper, Phillip Henry (grandfather), 71

Cooper, Suzan (second wife), 202, 254-55, 266

Cooper, Trudy (first wife), 15-16, 17, 64, 72, 103, 107, 141, 202