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Scott Carpenter

1925 - 2013

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Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013) was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, after Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Glenn. Commissioned into the U.S. Navy in 1949, Carpenter became a naval aviator, flying a Lockheed P-2 Neptune with Patrol Squadron 6 (VP-6) on reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare missions along the coasts of the Soviet Union and China during the Korean War and the Cold War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Scott Carpenter is the 95th most popular astronaut (up from 102nd in 2019), the 3,796th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,955th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Scott Carpenter ranks 95 out of 556. Before him are Walter Cunningham, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Vladimir Lyakhov, Stuart Roosa, Yury Romanenko, and Yuri Artyukhin. After him are Andy Thomas, Valentin Bondarenko, Anatoly Filipchenko, Konstantin Feoktistov, Kathryn D. Sullivan, and Donn F. Eisele.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Scott Carpenter ranks 184. Before him are Uzi Narkiss, Hugo Koblet, Jean Raspail, Rosario Castellanos, Mai Zetterling, and Željko Čajkovski. After him are Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Mario Merz, Klaus Roth, Mike Connors, José Napoleón Duarte, and Ernst Stojaspal. Among people deceased in 2013, Scott Carpenter ranks 155. Before him are Eiji Toyoda, Deanna Durbin, Bebo Valdés, Van Cliburn, Luis Cubilla, and Ceija Stojka. After him are Hans Riegel, Jetty Paerl, William P. Clark Jr., Carlo Lizzani, Jean Vincent, and Anatoly Onoprienko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scott Carpenter ranks 3,796 out of 20,380. Before him are Marie Laveau (1801), Jim Garrison (1921), William Windom (1827), Seymour Hersh (1937), Sean Michaels (1958), and Phil Scott (1958). After him are Peter Krause (1965), Eric Schmidt (1955), Dermot Mulroney (1963), Richard Beymer (1938), Arthur Cronquist (1919), and Robert Wisdom (1953).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Scott Carpenter ranks 53. Before him are Ken Mattingly (1936), Frank L. Culbertson Jr. (1949), Susan Helms (1958), Dick Scobee (1939), Walter Cunningham (1932), and Stuart Roosa (1933). After him are Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Donn F. Eisele (1930), Douglas G. Hurley (1966), Gregory Jarvis (1944), Deke Slayton (1924), and Susan Kilrain (1961).

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