Scott Carpenter's Guest Essay Archive

 

Guest Essay #1
How I Taught an Astronaut a Thing or Two —
And Received an Education

by Bob Barth

Guest Essay #2
A Bitter Lesson
by Stephen Clemmons

Wally Schirra: In Memoriam

Guest Essay #3
A Hero and his axe!
by Willie G. Moseley

Guest Essay #4
Must-See History:
Project Mercury on Film
by Mark Gray

Guest Essay #5
Fifty Years Ago: A Cross-Country Trip,
Some Bedrolls, and a Nebraska Night Sky

by Scott Carpenter & Kris Stoever

Guest Essay #6
Personal Recollections of the Selection of the
First Seven Astronauts

by by Allen O. Gamble, Ph.D.

Guest Essay #7
The Dream is Alive!
50 Years of Human Space Exploration

By Steven Lee, Ph.D.

 

Guest Essay #8
From the preface to the 1997 edition of The Hunters
By James Salter