Scott Carpenter

American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)

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Lived 1925–2013, aged 88United States

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1925–2013
Aged 88
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Updated 2026-06-19

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.