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Get Ready for the 50th anniversary of the
flight of Aurora 7!
Come and say Hi to Scott and guarantee an autograph
from one
of the original Mercury 7 astronauts!
Dear Mercury workers and organizations,
Many of you have already received word of the
celebration of Americans in orbit on February 18
and indicated your interest in coming. Pasted
below and attached is the formal invitation now
that John Glenn and Scott Carpenter have agreed
to meet with the Mercury workers that afternoon
before the public ceremony. As a matter of fact,
they indicated you were their highest priority
at the event.
Now that the schedule has been firmed up, we
need to get an accurate count of who is coming
and information for the badges and trip to Pad
14. The buses to the pad will probably depart
from the KSC Visitor Center between 2:30 p.m.
and 3 p.m. with the program in the Astronaut
Encounter Theater at 4:30 p.m. . The outdoor
ceremony for the public will be at 6:30 p.m.
Additional details on picking up your badges and
tickets will be sent to you closer to the event.
We appreciate all the help from the various
organizations in distributing the invitation and
look forward to seeing you there.
Hugh
Space Community Anniversary
Committee
January 23, 2012
Dear Project Mercury Team Members:
The Space Community Anniversary Committee has
been tasked by NASA External Relations to issue
an invitation to former Project Mercury workers
to attend a 50th Anniversary
celebration of Americans in orbit on Saturday
February 18th. John Glenn and Scott
Carpenter will participate along with NASA
Administrator Charlie Bolden, and KSC Director
Robert Cabana
The primary event based on the theme, “On the
Shoulders of Giants” will be at 6:30 p.m. on
February 18th at the KSC Visitor
Center. Paid admission by the General Public
will be available. The first 125 former Mercury
workers to apply, along with their spouse, or
guest, will be given free admission along with a
bus tour to SLC – 14 on Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station and a special program with Glenn and
Carpenter in the Astronaut Encounter Theater
during the afternoon. Other special exhibits and
activities will be available during the day.
More details will be emailed to applicants as
soon as final plans are approved by NASA
Headquarters.
Project Mercury workers, both NASA and
Contractor, who plan to attend, are asked to
submit their name and the name of their guest,
address, phone numbers and email addresses as
soon as possible to
hughwharris@bellsouth.net,
with a copy to <carolcava@aol.com>
along with a three or four word phrase that best
describes your role in Project Mercury. Let us
know if your guest is a foreign national.
Additional information may be requested later if
required by Air Force Security for admittance to
CCAFS and pad 14. If you have submitted your
name prior to this make sure we have all the
information called for. We would welcome your
scanning and emailing any pictures showing you
at work during the program to display on the
screen in the Astronaut Encounter Theater.
We expect the 6:30 event will be available on
NASA Television if you are unable to attend.
Sincerely,
Hugh Harris
Chairman, S.C.A.C.
Retired KSC Director of Public Affairs
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Scott Carpenter is often asked to
speak or lecture on subjects ranging from accounts of his
growing up in Boulder, Colo., to his boyhood fascination
with aviation—topics that might interest educators and
schoolchildren—to highly technical subjects dealing
with spaceflight history.
Many people alive today are too young
to remember the dramatic events leading to the creation of
NASA, the selection of the Project Mercury astronauts, and
the eventual moon landings. Fortunately, we have witnesses
who remember and can tell at least some the stories about
that time.
Commander Carpenter can speak about
innovation, physical conditioning, leadership, underwater
exploration, the importance of teamwork, individual
excellence, and the setting of personal goals. He can also
speak on technical topics. Carpenter tries to stay current
in his field (aeronautical engineering). Also, as an
eyewitness to and participant in key events of the earliest
days of the U.S. space program, especially Project Mercury,
Carpenter is in a unique position to talk about NASA and the
people there and elsewhere who made it all possible.
General interest in the cold war and the early U.S. space
program has
increased with the passing of the 50th anniversary of NASA and
the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landings.
As an innovator and test
subject working underwater, as a member of the U.S.
Navy’s Sealab program in the 1960s, Carpenter can also
recount his adventures training and working with the
aquanauts of Sealabs 1, 2, and 3.
Email Cmdr. Carpenter here for more information
about his availability
Scott and
Astronaut Nurse Dee O'Hara in 2007
