HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, and by Bret Harrison in the 2015 ABC TV series The Astronaut Wives Club. That year, he was also portrayed by Colin Hanks in the Season 3 episode "Oklahoma" of Drunk History, written by Laura Steinel, which retold the story of his Mercury-Atlas 9 flight. While he was in space, Cooper recorded dark spots he noticed in the waters of the Caribbean. He believed these anomalies may be the locations of shipwrecks. The 2017 Discovery Channel docu-series Cooper's Treasure followed by Darrell Miklos as he searched through Cooper's files to discover the location of the suspected shipwrecks. Cooper appeared as himself in an episode of the television series CHiPs, and during the early 1980s made regular call-in appearances on chat shows hosted by David Letterman, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas. The Thunderbirds character Gordon Tracy was named after him. He was also a major contributor to the book In the Shadow of the Moon (published after his death), which offered his final published thoughts on his life and career. In 2019, National Geographic began filming a television series based on Tom Wolfe's 1979 book The Right Stuff. Colin O'Donoghue is portraying Gordon Cooper. While the series was set to air in spring of 2020, the first two episodes aired on October 9, 2020, on subscription service Disney+. The 2019 series For All Mankind has Gordon "Gordo" Stevens, a character based in part on him. Notes References External links Why Did 'Gordo' Tell UFO Stories? "Remembering 'Gordo – NASA memories of Gordon Cooper 1927 births 1963 in spaceflight 1965 in spaceflight 2004 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople Air Force Institute of Technology alumni American aerospace engineers American Freemasons American test pilots Aviators from Hawaii Aviators from Oklahoma Collier Trophy recipients Neurological disease deaths in California Deaths from Parkinson's disease Engineers from California Engineers from Kentucky Engineers from Oklahoma Harmon Trophy winners Mercury Seven Military personnel from Oklahoma Murray High School (Kentucky) alumni People from Murray, Kentucky People from Shawnee, Oklahoma Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) Recipients of the Legion of Merit Recipients of the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal Space burials U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni United States Air Force astronauts United States Air Force officers United States Astronaut Hall of Fame inductees United States Marines University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni University of Maryland, College Park alumni Writers from