Remembering Astronaut Scott Carpenter [VIDEO]
He was one of America’s first astronauts, part of the original Mercury Seven. Scott Carpenter has died at the age of 88.
Reporter Holly Hickman takes a look back at his life:
(The nation’s Mercury astronauts)
Scott Carpenter plunged into both the heavens and the depths of the earth. He fought in Korea, then became one of America’s first seven astronauts. Part of the Mercury group that broke ground by breaking the limits of flight. He was backup to John Glenn’s historic Friendship Seven flight and piloted his own Aurora Seven. (newsreel audio)
On May 24th 1962, Scott Carpenter circled the earth three times. Carpenter later lived and worked on the ocean floor, now as an aquanaut. He explored how to both utilize and protect the ocean well into his 70’s. He wrote novels and memoirs, narrated documentaries and never stopped exploring.
Carpenter: “All us dinosaurs are asked, would you go again? Absolutely. Show me the elevators, the stairway into the machine and I’ll go.”
Carpenter said his heart took flight most as a father.
Holly Hickman, FOX News Radio.
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