Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the many individuals who helped with the creation and launch of this website—many of them from the collectSPACE community, where the very idea of a Scott Carpenter website began with an innocent question. Kris Stoever provided many of the links and wrote and edited most of the site content. John Gincley is to be thanked for his indefatigable work and all-around hacker heroism. John Stamey (Duke of URL) was a valued editor and fact-checker. Francis French helped enormously with the FAQs and the Project Mercury section. Scott Cornish and Robert Macleod provided beautiful scans of the Carpenter signature, which appears as a design element when the page loads. Matt Carpenter and Nick Carpenter read and commented on early drafts. Thank you, all. Naturally, any errors in fact (committed or omitted) are ours alone; please email us with comments, suggestions, and corrections.

The folks at FedEx/Kinko’s (Cherry Creek–Denver office) were extremely helpful with the scanning operation of old photographs. Bob Runge, Bob Barth, and Mark Helmkamp assisted with explanations of arcane Navy matters. Weare most grateful to Mark Gray of Spacecraft Films, Inc. Rob Pearlman, Mr. collectSPACE himself, has been terrific. Chris Spain and John Bisney gave sage advice about space collectibles like books and photographs.

Ed Hengeveld was enormously helpful: you can see some of his vast photo collection in the Galleries. Carmelo Pugliatti was similarly generous with his terrific collection. Rene Carpenter too has kindly shared her cache of photographs with us and you. The photo galleries will be online soon, along with other special features.