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Signed "Gordon Cooper" in black ink. This letter in on WED ENTERPRISES letterhead, measures 8.5" X 11.0" and is dated September 9, 1975. Letter has normal mailing folds otherwise in fine condition. WED Enterprises WED Enterprises Design and Development organization founded by Walt Disney in December 1952, to help him create Disneyland. Walt sold his interest in WED Enterprises in February 1965. Originally at the Disney Studio in Burbank, WED moved to facilities in Glendale in 1961. It later became known as Walt Disney Imagineering (1986). Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 ? October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States. Cooper learned to fly as a child, and after service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, he was commissioned into the United States Air Force in 1949. After service as a fighter pilot, he qualified as a test pilot in 1956, and was selected as an astronaut in 1959.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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003099
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