Gordon Cooper Wife Trudy
In fact his wife trudy had left him four months prior to the astronaut selection process.
Gordon cooper wife trudy. Gordon cooper was married twice. Instead she took him back for the sake of. Olson 19271994 of seattle through the local flying club.
Others like gordon coopers wife trudy were pulled back in to convince nasa that life at home was peachy and drama free. When she met gordo at the university. Cooper met his first wife trudy b.
Four months before he was chosen to be an astronaut gordon cooper was happily splitting his time between his work and his affair with a married woman when his wife trudy declared shed had enough and walked out on him after 12 years of marriage. Louise shepards husband alan was jumping into everyones bed but hers. Cooper got married to suzan taylor in 1972 a year after his divorce with his first wife.
Trudy was born in february 1929 in seattle. Olson who had previously worked as a flight attendant was the only astronaut wife to have a pilots license. As he watched her go his hopes of seeing the earth from a mercury capsule went with her almost.
They had two daughters. She was active in flying and would later become the only wife of a mercury astronaut to have a private pilot license. An enigmatic woman who was always conspicuously quiet with reporters trudy relied on her kittenish eyes to say im happily married.
They remained married till coopers death. Like in the tv series the right stuff true story reveals that gordon cooper had a prolonged affair with a married woman. They were married on august 29 1947 in honolulu when both were 20 years old.
She has an independent personality and is passionate about womens rights and is also a registered pilot and owner of a courier service. However during the selection interviews he lied and said that he and trudy had a healthy and stable marriage. Trudy cooper left her husband gordon for him being unfaithful months before project mercury had even been launched.
The couple first met while studying at the university of hawaii and remained married for 24 years. Trudy cooper is the wife of gordo cooper though they eventually divorce. 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.
Olson because of their shared love for flying. Trudy coopergordo coopers wife. She took him back only when he begged her to think of their two children and.
The truth was trudy didnt want anyone to find out her little secret.