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Scott Carpenter

1925 - 2013

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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. Commissioned into the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Scott Carpenter has received more than 1,824,239 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Scott Carpenter is the 84th most popular astronaut (down from 59th in 2019), the 3,712th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,926th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 44

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Scott Carpenter ranks 84 out of 524. Before him are Georgy Grechko, Leonid Popov, Deke Slayton, Claude Nicollier, Abdul Ahad Mohmand, and Leonid Kizim. After him are Yuri Artyukhin, Anatoly Berezovoy, Pyotr Klimuk, Stuart Roosa, Alfred Worden, and Gennady Padalka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Scott Carpenter ranks 185. Before him are Krishna Sobti, Kalle Svensson, June Whitfield, Klaus Roth, Yuli Daniel, and Emilio Eduardo Massera. After him are Carlo Rambaldi, Ilie Verdeț, Prosper Grech, Don Alden Adams, Zhores Medvedev, and Nonna Mordyukova. Among people deceased in 2013, Scott Carpenter ranks 172. Before him are Halton Arp, Michael Ansara, Francis Hong Yong-ho, S. N. Goenka, Eero Mäntyranta, and Georges Descrières. After him are Henrique Rosa, Jim Hall, Radu Vasile, Carlo Lizzani, Eileen Brennan, and Gérard de Villiers.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scott Carpenter ranks 3,712 out of 18,182. Before him are Ansel Adams (1902), Paula Abdul (1962), Lois Smith (1930), James M. Gavin (1907), Russ Tamblyn (1934), and Eric Dolphy (1928). After him are Richard Thomas (1951), John Astin (1930), James Gunn (1966), Leontyne Price (1927), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), and Jane Lynch (1960).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Scott Carpenter ranks 38. Before him are Ronald Evans (1933), Dick Scobee (1939), Charles Duke (1935), Joseph A. Walker (1921), Gregory Jarvis (1944), and Deke Slayton (1924). After him are Stuart Roosa (1933), Alfred Worden (1932), Walter Cunningham (1932), Sunita Williams (1965), Donn F. Eisele (1930), and William R. Pogue (1930).

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