Scott Carpenter
Astronaut
1925 – 2013
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Who was Scott Carpenter?
Malcolm Scott Carpenter was an American test pilot, 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 to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn.
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- Born
- May 1, 1925
Boulder - Parents
- Spouses
- Rene Louise Price
(1948 - ) - Maria May Roach
(1972 - ) - Barbara Curtin
(1988 - ) - Patty Barrett
(1999 - 2013/10/10)
- Rene Louise Price
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Aeronautical Engineering
(1945 - 1949) - Boulder High School
- Bachelor of Science, University of Colorado Boulder
- Employment
- Chief Executive Officer, Sear Sciences
(1969 - )
- Chief Executive Officer, Sear Sciences
- Lived in
- Boulder
- Died
- Oct 10, 2013
Denver
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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