{"id":4806,"date":"2026-05-16T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:11:10","slug":"gordon-cooper-set-record-for-space-travel-in-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4806","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Cooper Set Record for Space Travel in 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvY0CYw-Vi5etyriIONEZgf_UKTvRdk2ztmxoGMIylm30oh8Uq\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"175\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gordon Cooper<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Gordon Cooper, an American astronaut, circled the earth 22 times in 1963<\/strong>. His craft was the <em>Faith 7.<\/em> He splashed down over 34 hours after take-off. His craft was hoisted aboard a carrier before he opened the hatch. His voyage was the last of the Mercury flights. Children could learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/vision\/space\/features\/cooper_obit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cooper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Cooper, an American astronaut, circled the earth 22 times in 1963. His craft was the Faith 7. He splashed down over 34 hours after take-off. His craft was hoisted aboard a carrier before he opened the hatch. His voyage was the last of the Mercury flights. Children could learn more at:\u00a0Cooper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4493,2064,2063,2062,5548,2065],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4493","tag-astronaut","tag-faith-7","tag-gordon-cooper","tag-may-16","tag-mercury","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24774,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions\/24774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}