Malcolm Scott Carpenter is best known as one of the original seven
astronauts selected for NASA’s Project Mercury in April of 1959. He was
the second American to orbit the Earth and the fourth in space, following
Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn. Carpenter and Glenn are
are the last living members of the Mercury Seven astronauts.
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FORMER ASTRONAUT IS 86 TODAY
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happy birthday Mr.Carpenter
I am doing a report on you.