The biggest advantage of being an astronaut is that you can view the earth from above and get first-hand information of anomalies on the surface right there in space. As intriguing as this story sounds, one NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper selected as one of the Mercury astronauts in 1959, used his data to pinpoint shipwrecks filled with treasure and he chose to keep it a secret that became to be known as Cooper’s treasure.
1A NASA pilot locates treasure from space
Advertisement
Yes! That’s right. These records still exist in NASA’s biographical data till today depicting how Gordon Cooper was chosen for piloting the Faith7 spacecraft on May 15th 1963. The mission was a 22 orbit one and a success which landed Cooper another mission where he was the command pilot along with colleague Charles Conrad on the Gemini mission which was an 8 day 120 revolution that commenced on August 21, 1965.
Image Source: cbc.ca
2A second record Space journey for Cooper
Advertisement
Cooper was in command of the flight which also created a record for space endurance making Cooper the first man to fly two consecutive orbits in space. Cooper died in 2004 but he died taking him with him a secret that would have made big news had he declared it in public. Cooper had pinpointed treasure from space during his first Mercury space run and he wasn’t planning on telling anybody about it presumably hoping to find it himself.
Image Source: thinglink.me