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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.
The number Seven was also chosen for the Mercury 7 astronauts. In addition, Carpenter's home address in his childhood was the corner of Aurora Ave. and Seventh St. in Boulder, Colorado, although at a talk he gave at the Boulder Theater in 2003, Carpenter admitted that he never made the connection between the Aurora 7 spacecraft and his old ...
The astronauts participated in the project's design and planning, [87] dividing the work between them. Carpenter had training in airborne electronics and celestial navigation, so he assumed responsibility for the spacecraft's communications and navigation systems. Grissom had a degree in mechanical engineering, so he became responsible for the ...
This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: ... Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton.
The Right Stuff has selected its first three astronauts to take flight, and unfortunately for Mercury Seven hopeful Scott Carpenter, he wasn’t among the chosen trio in this past Friday’s ...
Rene [A] Carpenter (April 12, 1928 – July 24, 2020) was an American newspaper columnist and host of two Washington, D.C., television shows. As the wife of Scott Carpenter , one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, she was a pioneering member of NASA's early spaceflight families.
She was dubbed “the undisputed prom queen of the early space program” by People magazine.“The Right Stuff” tells the story of America’s first astronauts: John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gordon ...
As Carpenter, 25, performed a medley of her breakout hits at the awards ceremony on Wednesday night (11 September), two backing dancers – one dressed as an alien, and one as an astronaut ...