Scott Carpenter has Died
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A real pioneer. Rest in peace.
Put out his hand, and touched the face of God...
When I first read the thread title, I mistook his name for John Carpenter's.
May he rest in peace.
May he rest in peace.
Apparently John Glenn is the sole surviving member of the Mercury 7 now.
Farewell, gallant explorer. You were a hero and inspiration.
RIP
I always though Scott Carpenter was one of the most interesting of the Mercury Seven. He was a sort of an outsider from the other six; he'd flown P2V patrol planes in Korea rather than jet fighters and was a bit of a "free spirit," at least as far as 1950s-1960s military officers went. But he didn't care about fitting in, he was happy how he was. He got in trouble over MA-7 and that was that; my personal take on it is he didn't do anything really wrong but had some issues that maybe another pilot would have handled better. Unfortunately for him he was dealing a very rigid, zero-tolerance management. Which is understandable, the stakes were very high and the pressures were unimaginable. If he had been in a later astronaut group, he might well have flown again.
A brilliant and fascinating guy and a classy gentleman, I'm really sorry to see him go.
A brilliant and fascinating guy and a classy gentleman, I'm really sorry to see him go.
Rest in peace, Scott Carpenter. You were a true pioneer in a heroic age. You leave a legacy of greatness.
Those original Mercury astronauts were heroes in every sense of the word. RIP.
A real pioneer. RIP.
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