Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., "who defended the environmentalist legacy of his forebear, the novelist James Fenimore Cooper, and as a writer himself reached beyond the planet to pioneer reporting on space travel," died January 31, the New York Times reported. He was 82. Cooper, a longtime New Yorker magazine contributor, was the author of eight books, including Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed; Before Lift-off: The Making of a Space Shuttle Crew; and Apollo on the Moon.
