Career record
Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
4h 55m
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Malcolm Scott Carpenter, was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the original 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, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Glenn.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 7 — Pilot · Success · May 24, 1962
Born 1925-05-01 · died 2013-10-10