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Scott Carpenter
Carpenter in 1965
Born
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
(1925-05-01)May 1, 1925
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Died
October 10, 2013(2013-10-10) (aged 88)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Education
University of Colorado, Boulder (BS)
Awards
Legion of Merit Distinguished Flying Cross NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Space career
NASA astronaut
Rank
Commander, USN
Time in space
4h 56m
Selection
NASA Group 1 (1959)
Missions
Mercury-Atlas 7
Mission insignia
Retirement
August 10, 1967
Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, after Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Glenn.
Commissioned into the U.S. Navy in 1949, Carpenter became a naval aviator, flying a Lockheed P-2 Neptune with Patrol Squadron 6 (VP-6) on reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare missions along the coasts of Soviet Union and China during the Korean War and the Cold War. In 1954, he attended the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, and became a test pilot. In 1958, he was named Air Intelligence Officer of USS Hornet, which was then in dry dock at the Bremerton Navy Yard.
The following year, Carpenter was selected as one of the Mercury Seven astronauts. He was backup to Glenn during the latter's Mercury Atlas 6 orbital mission. Carpenter flew the next mission, Mercury-Atlas 7, in the spacecraft he named Aurora 7. Due to a series of malfunctions, the spacecraft landed 250 miles (400 km) downrange from its intended splashdown point, but both pilot and spacecraft were retrieved.
Carpenter obtained permission from NASA to take a leave of absence to join the U.S. Navy SEALAB project as an aquanaut. During training he suffered injuries that grounded him, making him unavailable for further spaceflights. In 1965, he spent 28 days living on the ocean floor off the coast of California as part of SEALAB II. He returned to NASA as Executive Assistant to the Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, then joined the Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project in 1967 as Director of Aquanaut Operations for SEALAB III. He retired from NASA in 1967, and from the Navy in 1969.
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Owners and Pilots Association with the AOPA logo on the dial. In 1961, ScottCarpenter, one of the original astronauts in the Mercury space program, tasked...
conference at Dolley Madison House in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 1959: ScottCarpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard...
conference at Dolley Madison House in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 1959: ScottCarpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard...
performed as a guest vocalist on the Time album by Richard Carpenter of The Carpenters, where Carpenter thanked the 15-year-old Grimes for his "spirited" performance...
solid food consumed by a NASA astronaut: small food cubes eaten by ScottCarpenter on board Aurora 7 in 1962. (John Glenn had consumed the fruit-flavored...
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conference at Dolley Madison House in Washington, D.C., on April 9, 1959: ScottCarpenter, Gordon Cooper, Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and...
Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, along with fellow future astronauts ScottCarpenter and Jim Lovell. On April 2, 1959, Slayton was notified of his selection...
tapings for Wrestling Revolution Project, performing under the ring name ScottCarpenter. JAPW declared the Light Heavyweight Championship vacant in September...
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