![]() Incredibly Cooper performed all this unheard of and difficult procedure suffering from “carbon dioxide hallucinations”. ![]() ![]() But as the spacecraft’s electronics had failed, Cooper had to take over, for the first time in American space history, manual control of the capsule and, only guiding himself through the stars, accurately calculated the angle of re-entry into the atmosphere, triggering the retrorockets at the exact moment and the capsule landed safely at sea near the rescue ships. Gordon Cooper, one of america’s pioneering space program astronauts.Īt this point it is worth mentioning that like all other capsules of the Program Mercury, Cooper’s Faith 7 was built to be operated automatically and fully controlled from NASA’s command center, which reduced astronauts to mere passengers, a very controversial issue and criticized by the pilots of the time. NASA, however, rejected Cooper’s claims, claiming that it was all just the result of various technical problems, such as a loss of power that caused the internal temperature in the capsule to rise to 54° centigrade and carbon dioxide levels to rise, both in the cabin and in his pressurized suit, which would have caused him hallucinations. On the same day, about 100 people in Perth, Australia, claimed to have seen a large black object in the sky and reported to the authorities, at that time they still did not know of the testimony of the astronaut, which would only go public six months later. Two years later, in May 1963, one of NASA’s most experienced astronauts, Gordon Cooper, made the last flight of Project Mercury, prior to Apollo, where he broke all records of permanence in space, spending more than 34 hours in space and orbiting the Earth 22 times, when he saw a “floating black mass” while flying over the Australian city of Perth. Allen Hynek on the left and Jacques Vallee on the right. Allen Hynek of the Blue Book Project, and would later work together researching and writing books on ufology. Valle was a student and friend of astronomer J. In 1961, the astronomer Jacques Vallee identify a giant object in earth’s orbit, he even claimed that he recorded the trajectory of the mysterious object, only to see his superior erase the evidence the next day. In addition, the few satellites at the time only surrounded the equator. This happened on February 11, 1960, and the story gained even more status when Time Magazine stated that a “large dark object” was circling the Arctic Polar route.Īt the time, the only two space potentials thought it was a military spy satellite, the Americans believing it belonged to the Russians and the Russians accusing the Americans, but the satellite did not belong to any of them. This theory became even more popular in 1960, when the US and USSR would have in fact located what appeared to be a shipwreck in space. The Saint Louis Post Dispatch and San Francisco Examiner reported the discovery of astronomer LaPaz on May 14, 1954. Later LaPaz and his assistant denied the incident, which led many to believe in the existence of a government conspiracy to conceal its existence. ![]()
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