I was fortunate to be able to attend a special recognition ceremony for the Apollo 13 crew, held a few weeks ago at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Astronauts (and their wives) from Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects attended, along with many of th

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Scott Carpenter is an astronaut among 7. 7 that are the NASA Pioneers, the group 1, the group of the Mercury Project. An elite of jet pilot coming from different army corpses: Air Force, Navy and Marine. 7 among 508 army candidate, 7 filling those criteri

On May the 24th 1962, Scott Carpenter comes back from space. He is the 6th man to go there, the second american with to rteach orbit. Americans have now the same number of orbital flights as soviets, they catch up after losing to Sputnik and Gagarine. The

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