Scott Carpenter, pioneering astronaut and 2nd American in orbit, dies at ag


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Scott Carpenter, pioneering astronaut and 2nd American in orbit, dies at age 88

 

DENVER ? Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the Earth, was guided by two instincts: overcoming fear and quenching his insatiable curiosity. He pioneered his way into the heights of space and the depths of the ocean floor.

  

?Conquering of fear is one of life?s greatest pleasures and it can be done a lot of different places,? he said.

 

His wife, Patty Barrett, said Carpenter died in a Denver hospice of complications from a September stroke. He lived in Vail.

Carpenter followed John Glenn into orbit, and it was Carpenter who gave him the historic send-off: ?Godspeed John Glenn.? The two were the last survivors of the famed original Mercury 7 astronauts from the ?Right Stuff? days of the early 1960s. Glenn is the only one left alive.

 

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/scott-carpenter-pioneering-astronaut-and-2nd-american-in-orbit-dies-at-age-88/2013/10/10/a3d20f38-31ea-11e3-ad00-ec4c6b31cbed_story.html

 

 

When I was a teenager these men were my heroes.

 

Rest in Peace, Mr. Carpenter.

 

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