Scott Carpenter (full name Malcolm Scott Carpenter) was born on Friday, May 1, 1925 in Boulder, Colorado and he is a famous astronaut from United States. It turned out that he had three distinct periods of naval service, each one associated with a different war. His focus during World War 2 and the Korean war was solely on a aviation: studying to fly, flying itself, and then studying flying some more.

In 1954, the cold war intensified, and Scott was appointed to the Test Pilot School at Patuxent River Naval Air Station. He went to Maryland, where he was T.P.S. class 13.
His third period of naval service (1959 – 1969) overlapped whit his astronaut career at NASA. Scott was first chosen for and seconded to a young civilian space agency – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Life in Brief:

- Being born on May 01, Scott is a Taurus.
- his ethnicity: White.
- his mother's name: Florence Kelso Noxon Carpenter.
- his father's name: M. Scott Carpenter.

He attended the BS Aeronautical Engineering, University of Colorado (in 1949).

Scott dated Rene Louise Price (wife) and amongst other amorous encounters was Barbara Curtin (wife).

Famous Why : He was one of the first men to take part in the 1959 Project Mercury

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Category: Others  - ( Others Archive)

Date Added: 14 April '09

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