# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-carpenter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:46:56.343Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-carpenter"
name: "Scott Carpenter"
slug: "scott-carpenter"
description: "Malcolm Scott Carpenter 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 to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, after Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Glenn."
tagline: "American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MalcolmScottCarpenter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1925-05-01"
deathDate: "2013-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.96312666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0139453"
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    url:       "http://www.scottcarpenter.com/"
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    title: "Մալկոլմ Սկոտ Քարփենթեր"
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    title: "Scott Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Malcolm Carpenter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1675820"
    title: "Scott Carpenter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump