Education: B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, 1956

Spaceflights: Pilot, Mercury-Atlas 9 (1963). Command pilot, Gemini 5 (1965)

Served as the backup pilot of Mercury-Atlas 8, pilot for Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7), command pilot for Gemini 5, backup command pilot for Gemini 12, and backup commander for Apollo 10.

Retired from NASA and the Air Force in July 1970 to form Gordon Cooper Associates in Hialiah, Florida and later worked as Vice-President for Research and Development for WED Enterprises, Glendale, California and President of XL, Inc., a Los Angeles business consulting company.

Currently chief executive of Galaxy Group, Inc., which refurbishes airplanes and is located in Van Nuys, California.