Scott Carpenter
01 May, 1925 in Boulder, Colorado, USA
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. Carpenter was the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit... the Earth and the fourth American in space, after Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Glenn.
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Malcolm Scott Carpenter
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