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Scott Carpenter
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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Born 1 May 1925 · Died 10 October 2013 · Q335503
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2026· 2 entries
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (2017).
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2013· 1 entry
Died 2013-10-10.
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2012· 3 entries
What his legacy would be, Carpenter replied: "I was an astronaut and an aquanaut
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Joined Glenn and former NASA support staff to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Glenn's mission
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When asked in 2012 what his legacy would be, Carpenter replied: "I was an astronaut and an aquanaut."
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2008· 1 entry
The International Space Hall of Fame in 1981, and the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2017
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2003· 1 entry
Published his autobiography, For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut, which was co-written with his daughter, Kristen Stoever
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1999· 1 entry
When he was 74, Carpenter married his fourth wife, Patricia Barrett
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (1981).
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1972· 1 entry
Carpenter married his second wife, Maria Roach, the daughter of film producer Hal Roach
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1969· 1 entry
With the rank of commander, after which he founded Sea Sciences, Inc
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1968· 1 entry
By 1968, Carpenter and his wife had separated, with him living in California and Rene with their children in Washington, D.C.
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1967· 3 entries
And joined the Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project based in Bethesda, Maryland, as a Director of Aquanaut Operations for SEALAB III
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As Director of Aquanaut Operations for SEALAB III
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And the Navy in 1969, with the rank of commander
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1965· 1 entry
Spent 28 days living on the ocean floor off the coast of California as part of SEALAB II
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1964· 2 entries
And 1967, and diagnosed with avascular necrosis in the knees from deep-sea diving, Carpenter was ruled ineligible for further spaceflight and deep-sea missions
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Carpenter obtained permission from NASA to take a leave of absence to join the U
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1963· 1 entry
Carpenter met Jacques Cousteau, who was giving a public lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1962· 3 entries
Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1962).
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Watched by 40 million television viewers
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Boulder community leaders dedicated Scott Carpenter Park and Pool in his honor
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1959· 2 entries
To inform him that he had been one of the seven men selected
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The first 35 candidates went to The Pentagon, where they met with the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Arleigh Burke, and the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General (United States) Thomas D
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1958· 3 entries
As a civilian agency to develop space technology
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Was named Air Intelligence Officer of USS Hornet, which was then in dry dock at the Bremerton Navy Yard
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Was named Air Intelligence Officer of USS Hornet, which was in dry dock at the Bremerton Navy Yard
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1957· 2 entries
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite
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And then the Naval Air Intelligence School at NAS Anacostia in Washington D
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1951· 2 entries
One of his squadron's aircraft was shot down over the Sea of Japan by two Soviet Lavochkin La-11 fighters, with the loss of all ten crew
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Signifying completion of his flight training
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1950· 2 entries
And then commenced primary flight training at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, learning to fly in an SNJ trainer
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And Rene was pregnant with a second), he elected the less dangerous option of flying multi-engine patrol aircraft
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1949· 2 entries
At Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, for pre-flight training
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Carpenter became a naval aviator, flying a Lockheed P-2 Neptune with Patrol Squadron 6 (VP-6) on reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare missions along the coasts of the Soviet Union and China during the Korean War and
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1946· 1 entry
After he fell asleep at the wheel of his 1934 Ford
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1943· 1 entry
Became a V-12A aviation cadet at Colorado College in Colorado Springs
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-05-01.
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