Scott Carpenter
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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.
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A Lockheed P2V Neptune in flight near NAS Patuxent River in 1954
The Mercury Seven astronauts. Front row, left to right, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, and Carpenter; back row, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and Gordon Cooper.
Carpenter and his family visit the White House. Left to right: Rene, President John F. Kennedy, Kristen, Carpenter, Scott, Candace and Jay.
Carpenter is assisted into his pressure suit in the crew quarters of Hangar S at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on the morning of the flight of Mercury Atlas 7.
Carpenter is helped into his Aurora 7 spacecraft on May 24, 1962.
Carpenter is plucked from the water.Awards 6
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Alan BeanAlso won United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
Joseph KittingerAlso won National Aviation Hall of Fame
Walter CronkiteAlso won International Space Hall of Fame
James McDivittAlso won National Aviation Hall of Fame
Thomas P. StaffordAlso won United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
Chuck YeagerAlso won International Space Hall of FameAbout this person
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.
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