Cooper's Treasure

Spaceflight historians and program veterans have serious problems with the fundamental premises of this show. They say there never was such a sensor on Mercury-9, there never was the slightest justification of putting such a sensor on it when airplanes could carry the sensor more effectively and cheaply, that Cooper only took a few dozen photos of the surface -- none at all over the Caribbean == that there was no way an astronaut looking out the window could accurately log latitude/longitude of anything he saw, and no way that Cooper could or would keep secret notes from the flight without NASA's knowledge. Otherwise, enjoy the show.

Can't click the 'spoilers' button, because there are no spoilers.

This is about 15 or 20 minutes of total material, spread over 8 episodes. There is all kinds of fake drama (clearly faked, how do you surprise your dad when 2 or 3 guys with cameras walk in). Nothing exciting, nothing gets found, it's just boring. The 10 minutes of the 20 that are dedicated to Gordon Cooper are kind of cool. But you see that in the first episode. The other 7 episodes each add about 1 minute of new material, and rehash for the other roughly 39 minutes of show (discounting the 20 minutes of commercials).

I wish everyone would refuse to watch this so they stop making these kind of shows. This should have been a 1 episode documentary, nothing else.

People giving this a positive review are nothing more than fake reviews to get the ratings up.

I haven't seen enough substance to warrant a rating yet! Is this show going to continue? Will anything ever be found? The premise had some merit, but apparently neither Mikos nor any of his "experts" can read maps or understand any of Coopers research?!?! C'mon guys, Coop went to a lot of trouble to document a couple hundred sites, can't you honor him by finding at least one? If y'all write yourselves into a corner and can't figure a way out, let me know and I'll guide you to a couple of them.

How many times do you have to see the same footage from space, of maps, of his face, repeating and repeating the same things over and over? It's amazing that this is on the air at all. There is no excitement, tension, and most importantly, no pay off at the end of each episode, or even at the end or the season. It really stinks!

Such a waste of do much time. They show so little real treasure hunting in each episode. The format is go over the content of last episode, talk alot about not much for most of the episode, then show a few minutes to entice you to watch the next episode. There is one episode that is all about bringing up the anchor to the surface. What a joke but that's the format all these production companies are adopting to stretch out content for many series.