Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut Who Orbited Earth, Dies at 88

[Dacheet]

[QUOTE]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.

His wife, Patty Carpenter, announced the death. No cause was given. Mr. Carpenter had entered hospice care recently after having a stroke.

[B]His death leaves John H. Glenn Jr., who flew the first orbital mission on Feb. 20, 1962, and later became a United States senator from Ohio, as the last survivor of the Mercury 7.[/B][/QUOTE]
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Fuck, man, that really sucks. :(

[Sableye]

shit and when nasa is at its lowest point of activity after a 2 decades of station construction

[editline]10th October 2013[/editline]

i'm scared we'll soon be living in a world where nobody alive has stepped on the moon

[K0mori]

When I was younger, I saw John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and Walter Schirra at a dinner with the astronauts thing. Cooper died about a week after the event, and I didn't even know Schirra died. This is very sad.

[Ice Tea]

[QUOTE=meanies]Some NASA officials found fault with his performance.

“He was completely ignoring our request to check his instruments,” Christopher Kraft, the flight director, wrote in his memoir “Flight: My Life in Mission Control” (2001). “I swore an oath that Scott Carpenter would never again fly in space. He didn’t.”[/QUOTE]

Why put this in the article of a man who has just died? Seems rather mean.

[DesolateGrun]

He'll live forever though