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Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dies At 88

Posted by timothy on from the above-below-and-beyond dept.

schwit1 writes "M. Scott Carpenter, whose flight into space in 1962 as the second American to orbit the Earth was marred by technical glitches and ended with the nation waiting anxiously to see if he had survived a landing far from the target site, died on Thursday in Denver. He was 88 and one of the last two surviving astronauts of America's original space program, Project Mercury." NASA has a nice biography of Carpenter, too, and scottcarpenter.com has much more besides.

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  1. Run-on sentence summary by omnichad · · Score: 4, Funny

    The run-on sentence in the summary makes it hard not to read it like he's been missing since 1962 and just now found.

  2. A sad day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your famous landing on Mercury will never be forgotten, Mr. Carpenter.