Today, October 10th, 2013, Scott Carpenter dies at
the age of 88 in a Denver Hospice. Scott was the fourth U.S. astronaut to fly
into space and the second to orbit the Earth. Carpenter's wife, Patty,
confirmed his death to Fox News. Carpenter had recently suffered from a stroke.
Carpenter was one of the last of the surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts
for the Fledgling U.S. space program. Additionally, Carpenter was chosen in
1959 to be one of NASA's first astronauts and flew on hos one and only space
mission on May 24th, 1962, circling the Earth three times while conducting
scientific experiments. Interestingly enough, Carpenter was the first man to
explore the depths of the ocean and the heights of space, making him an
astronaut and an aquanaut. Three months after John Glenn, the first man into
space, returned from orbit, Carpenter was the next to go to orbit the Earth
three times and he lost signal with NASA during the off target landing upon his
return. The fallout from the missed landing kept NASA from ever launching
Carpenter in to space again, where he went from astronaut to aquanaut. That
made Carpenter the only man to formally explore the space and the ocean
frontier.
May 1st, 1925 - October 10th, 2013
NASA Photo
"The view of Mother Earth and the
weightlessness is an addictive combination of senses"
- Scott Carpenter
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