Scott Carpenter
Personal information
- Known for
- Acting
- Known credits
- 6
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- May 1, 1925
- Died
- October 10, 2013
- Place of birth
- Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Also known as
- Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Biography
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.
