Scott Carpenter
| Malcolm Scott Carpenter | |
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | United States |
| Born | Malcolm Scott Carpenter May 1, 1925 Boulder, Colorado, U.S. |
| Died | October 10, 2013 (aged 88) Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
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Other occupation
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Naval aviator, test pilot, aquanaut (SEALAB II) |
| University of Colorado, B.S. 1962 | |
| Rank | Commander, USN |
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Time in space
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4 hours 56 minutes |
| Selection | 1959 NASA Group 1 |
| Missions | Mercury-Atlas 7 |
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Mission insignia
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| Retirement | August 10, 1967 |
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Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013), (Cmdr, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the original 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, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn.
Born May 1, 1925, in Boulder, Colorado, Carpenter moved to New York City with his parents Marion Scott Carpenter and Florence Kelso Carpenter for the first 3 years of his life. His father had been awarded a postdoctoral research post at Columbia University. In the summer of 1927, Scott returned to Boulder with his mother, then ill with tuberculosis. He was raised by his maternal grandparents in the family home at the corner of Aurora Avenue and Seventh Street, until his graduation from Boulder High School in 1943. It was claimed that Carpenter named his spacecraft "Aurora 7" after Aurora Avenue, but he denied this.
He was a Boy Scout and earned the rank of Second Class Scout.
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