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 NASAs 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
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