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Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dies At 88

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 10, 2013 @08:58AM 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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God speed by dlt074 · 2013-10-10 09:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

God speed Sir. Thank you for your service.
He flew into space in a beetle-sized capsule by WillAffleckUW · 2013-10-10 11:38 · Score: 5, Insightful

Basically, this guy flew into space in something the size of a VW Beetle.
Think about that.
No guts.
No glory.
He had both.

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