Along the way, the squadron built a history and a reputation worthy of the name, “World Famous Indians.” HS-6 recovered Mercury Program astronauts Wally Schirra in 1962 and Gordon Cooper in 1963.
In a silver-colored spacesuit, astronaut Gordon Cooper steps away from his Mercury spacecraft and into the bright sunlight on the deck of the recovery ship after 22 orbits of Earth.
Fellow astronaut Gordon Cooper was there, and so were two U.S. Air Force reservists who had just been invited to their first QB meeting: Major William "Bill" Hall and Lieutenant Colonel Francis "Fran" Dellorto.
Alice Cooper | Gordon Brown | Flash Gordon | Gary Cooper | Gordon Lightfoot | Dexter Gordon | Gordon Banks | Charles George Gordon | Mike Gordon | James Fenimore Cooper | Gordon Highlanders | Anderson Cooper | Gordon | Kim Gordon | Gordon Ramsay | Cooper Union | Cooper Creek | Chris Cooper (actor) | Chris Cooper | Anderson Cooper 360° | Merian C. Cooper | Lonnie Gordon | Jeff Gordon | Gordon B. Hinckley | Douglas Gordon | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum | Cam Gordon | Tommy Cooper | Sheldon Cooper | Jim Cooper |
SPENCOMM personnel traveled to NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center) and Kennedy Space Center to meet with and get design feedback from Schirra and several other astronauts, including Gordon Cooper.
James Doohan, who played Chief Engineer Scott on the 1960s television series Star Trek, and from astronaut Gordon Cooper, were rocketed into suborbital space (along with ashes of about 200 other people) by UP Aerospace from Spaceport America.