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

as pilot, 16, 103, 202

Cooper patch, 115

cosmonauts’ U.S. tour, 139-40

creative visualization, 236-37

Cronkite, Walter, 264-65

Dana, Bill, 21

Debus, Kurt, 153

defecation in space, 125

Defense Department, U.S., 84-85, 87

defibrillator units, 239

digital electronic flight controls, 223

Disney Imagineering, 211-15, 225, 266

Dobrynin, Anatoly, 163

Donlon, Charles, 15

Dornberger, Walter, 150

drogues, 62, 139

Earhart, Amelia, 97-98, 100

Edge of Reality, 76

Edison, Thomas, 233, 234, 240

Edwards Air Force Base, 7-8, 11, 14-15, 22, 38, 132, 223

Happy Bottom Riding Club at, 100, 101

UFO sightings at, 82-86, 90-91

“8 Days or Bust,” 113-15, 129

Einstein, Albert, 258

Eisele, Donn, 179-80

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 57, 152

electricity, 239

AC vs. DC, 233-34

electromagnetic propulsion system, self-generating, 257-58

energy technology, 214, 216, 233-35, 237-46

England, 141, 143, 185, 257

UFO sightings in, 88

in World War II, 151, 153-54

Enola Gay, 83

Enos (chimpanzee), 33

Epcot Center, 213

escape towers, 4, 25, 28, 31, 43, 116, 117, 118

Ethiopia, 140-42

Explorer I, 152

extra-sensory perception (ESP), 243

extra-vehicular activity (EVA; space walk):

Soviet, 134, 136-37

U.S., 119, 156-57, 177, 267

extreme-low-frequency (ELF) waves, 242-46

F-8 Crusaders, 21

F-84 Thunderjets, 80

F-86 Sabrejets, 80-81, 193-94

F-102 fighters, 7, 14, 24-25, 38

F-106 fighters, 7, 14, 31-32, 192

Faith 7, 37, 41-53, 126

clock of, 43, 53

communications system of, 42, 51-52, 53, 55, 57-63

cooling system of, 46, 53, 59

countdown and liftoff of, 41-43

Earth objects distinguished from, 46, 47-48, 66, 124

experiments performed on, 47, 49-50

false report of UFO sighting during, 75-76

manual reentry of, 56-64, 73

negative 34-angular-degree of,