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Malcolm Scott Carpenter , , 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 to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Glenn.

✵ 1. May 1925 – 10. October 2013
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“Godspeed, John Glenn.”

Scott Carpenter

Famous lines, as capsule communicator, during Glenn's liftoff from Cape Canaveral, to become the first American to orbit the Earth (20 February 1962)

“I volunteered for a number of reasons. One of these, quite frankly, was that I thought this was a chance for immortality. Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.”

Scott Carpenter

Statement in We Seven (1962)

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