Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013)

(FoxNews) – Scott Carpenter, the fourth U.S. astronaut to fly in space and the
second to orbit the Earth, died Thursday at a Denver hospice.

Carpenter’s wife, Patty, confirmed his death to Fox News. Carpenter, 88, of Vail,
Colo., recently suffered a stroke.

Along with John Glenn, who flew three months before him, Carpenter was one of
the last two surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts for the fledgling U.S. space
program.

He was chosen in 1959 to be one of NASA’s first astronauts and flew on his one
and only space mission on May 24, 1962, circling the Earth three times while
conducting scientific experiments.

As an astronaut and aquanaut who lived underwater for the U.S. Navy, Carpenter
was the first man to explore both the depths of the ocean and the heights of space.

Carpenter gave the famous send-off — "Godspeed, John Glenn" — when Glenn
became the first American in orbit in February 1962.

(The Hollywood Reporter) – NBC’s The Six Million Dollar Man has been
off the air since 1978, but fans who have spent the last three and a half
decades wishing for a sixth season of the Lee Majors-starring drama will
finally see their dream come true — kind of — next year when Dynamite
Entertainment launches The Six Million Dollar Man: Season 6.

The monthly comic book picks up the continuity of the original television
series from the end of the fifth and final season, with writer James Kuhoric
promising to "bring back all the things that made it special to me back in
the day." Amongst those things, Kuhoric said, are the show’s trademark
slow motion effect sequences. He said "We went out of our way to use
the ‘Kung Fu Slow Motion’, the sound effects, and all the oddities of that
era so the comic book would feel like the original TV series.”

The Six Million Dollar Man: Season 6 will be released in comic book stores
and digitally in February 2014, in time for the series’ 40th anniversary year
(It debuted on NBC January 18, 1974).

Award-winning comic book writer James Kuhoric

Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013)

FoxNews/AP – Celebrated author Tom Clancy, who became famous for
best-sellers like “The Hunt for Red October” and “Patriot Games,” died 
Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a brief illness, according to the
Baltimore Sun. His latest novel, "Command Authority," is slated to be 
released in December 2013.

 
The Teddy Bears with Phil Spector (left)

The song “To Know Him, Is To Love Him” was written and composed by 
18-year old Phil Spector. He was inspired by the words on his father’s
tombstone.

Phillip Harvey "Phil" Spector will be 74 on December 26

A Miss Piggy Muppet, that was used on "The Muppet Show," is shown during a
ceremony to donate additional Jim Henson memorabilia to the Smithsonian’s
National Museum of American History in Washington,  

WASHINGTON (AP) – Miss Piggy is finally joining her love, Kermit the Frog, in the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of Jim Henson’s Muppets, and Bert and Ernie
will have a place in history, too.

Henson’s daughter, Cheryl Henson, donated more than 20 puppets and props
Tuesday to the National Museum of American History. The donation included
Miss Piggy and some of her co-stars from "The Muppet Show" including Fozzie
Bear,

The museum says Miss Piggy will go on display in March 2014 in the museum’s "American Stories" exhibit. The original Kermit and Cookie Monster will go on
view in November in a special display case.