ASTRONAUT

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 1,898,245 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Scott Carpenter is the 102nd most popular astronaut (down from 84th in 2019), the 3,955th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,702nd in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

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  • 5.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Scott Carpenter ranks 102 out of 556. Before him are Yang Liwei, Anatoly Berezovoy, Valery Ryumin, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Deke Slayton, and Dirk Frimout. After him are Pyotr Klimuk, Vladimir Lyakhov, Georgy Grechko, Lev Dyomin, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, and Yury Glazkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Scott Carpenter ranks 199. Before him are Željko Čajkovski, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Bernard Morel, Jimmy Smith, Lenny Bruce, and Andrei Sinyavsky. After him are Edward Gorey, Michael Halliday, Paul Wild, Maureen Stapleton, Rubem Fonseca, and Justo Gallego Martínez. Among people deceased in 2013, Scott Carpenter ranks 191. Before him are Arik Einstein, Juan José Linz, Ray Dolby, Radu Vasile, Saye Zerbo, and Tommy Morrison. After him are Henrique Rosa, Richard C. Sarafian, Heinz Flohe, Yusef Lateef, Otto Muehl, and Alain Mimoun.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scott Carpenter ranks 3,955 out of 20,380. Before him are David Boreanaz (1969), Jay Cutler (1973), Hal Ashby (1929), Tom Ewell (1909), John W. McCormack (1891), and Gary Burton (1943). After him are Arthur D. Levinson (1950), Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844), Nikos Galis (1957), Jean Peters (1926), Mack Swain (1876), and Marianne Williamson (1952).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Scott Carpenter ranks 45. Before him are Donn F. Eisele (1930), Dick Scobee (1939), Alfred Worden (1932), Stuart Roosa (1933), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), and Deke Slayton (1924). After him are Gregory Jarvis (1944), Joseph A. Walker (1921), Jeffrey A. Hoffman (1944), Vance D. Brand (1931), Sunita Williams (1965), and Mae Jemison (1956).

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