Gordon Cooper Second Wife
Others like gordon coopers wife trudy were pulled back in to convince nasa that life at home was peachy and drama free.
Gordon cooper second wife. Olson who had previously worked as a flight attendant was the only astronaut wife to have a pilots license. When he returned he fell into depression took up drinking and had a bunch of affairs. Louise shepards husband alan was jumping into everyones bed but hers.
Colonel usaf ret and hattie lee templatenee cooperhe was active in the boy scouts of america where he achieved its second highest rank life scout. Joan realized this and tolerated him accordingly because clearly it was her wifely duty to let an obnoxious smelly primate treat her like a second class citizen. Cooper attended jefferson elementary school and shawnee high school in shawnee oklahoma and was.
Leroy gordon cooper jr. His mother was a school teacher. Biography edit early life and education edit.
Joan divorced him in 1974. His father enlisted in the united states navy during world war i and served on the presidential yacht uss mayflower. Gordon coopers wife trudy had left him in 1958 four months before nasa selected him for the programme because as one of the other spouses would.
When she met gordo at the university. Trudy cooper is the wife of gordo cooper though they eventually divorce. However during the selection interviews he lied and said that he and trudy had a healthy and stable marriage.
It got worse after aldrins famous moon landing. In fact his wife trudy had left him four months prior to the astronaut selection process. The couple first met while studying at the university of.
One of them was over before mercury even began. Instead she took him back for the. After the war cooper sr.
Olson because of their shared love for flying. And trudy cooper remained mum about the time she left her husband gordo after she had discovered he was screwing another mans wife as rumor had it. Trudy cooper left her husband gordon for him being unfaithful months before project mercury had even been launched.
She has an independent personality and is passionate about womens rights and is also a registered pilot and owner of a courier service. Trudy was born in february 1929 in seattle. She took him back only when he begged her to think of their two children and.
Gordon cooper was married twice. Was born on march 6 1927 in shawnee oklahoma the only child of leroy gordon cooper sr. Like in the tv series the right stuff true story reveals that gordon cooper had a prolonged affair with a married woman.