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Gordon Cooper, on board the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission spacecraft named FAITH 7, was the astronaut on the final Mercury mission on May 15-16, 1963.

(John Glenn was later to go into space on board a shuttle mission, so technically he was the last of the astronauts of Project Mercury in space.)

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