2010 Panini century Collection SCOTT CARPENTER                                                      

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 Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013), (Commander, USN), !!!!!! He 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. The seven original American astronauts were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. Grissom, Cooper, and Slayton were Air Force pilots; Shepard, Carpenter, and Schirra were Navy pilots, and Glenn was a Marine Corps pilot Born in Boulder, Colorado, May 1, 1925,

 Carpenter joined the U.S. Navy in 1949, and flew multi-engine Lockheed P-2 Neptune patrol aircraft.  He graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, with Class 13 in 1954.  Carpenter flew Mercury-Atlas 7, the second orbital Mercury mission.  He took a leave of absence from NASA in the fall of 1963 to participate in the Navy's SEALAB program, and sustained an injury to his left arm in a motorbike accident. God is not good .. !!!  Two surgical interventions in 1964 and 1967 failed to correct the condition, and he resigned from NASA in August 1967, and from the Navy in 1969, with the rank of commander.  Died : October 10, 2013