Scott Carpenter, 1963, Everett Raymond Kinstler, U.S. Navy Museum. This portrait hangs in Building 76, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. 20374-5060

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Project Mercury astronauts John Glenn (left) and Scott Carpenter pose outside the press headquarters at Cape Canaveral, following the Mercury-Atlas 5 launch on November 29, 1961. At the press conference it was announc that Glenn and Carpenter were the prime-alternate crew for the country�s first orbital mission, MA-6, nam Friendship 7. They had earlier learn of the assignment in September at Langley, Va.

Project Mercury astronauts John Glenn (left) and Scott Carpenter pose outside the press headquarters at Cape Canaveral, following the Mercury-Atlas 5 launch on November 29, 1961. At the press conference it was announc that Glenn and Carpenter were the prime-alternate crew for the country�s first orbital mission, MA-6, nam Friendship 7. They had earlier learn of the assignment in September at Langley, Va.

Cmdr. M. Scott Carpenter (USN), surfacing from a dive off La Jolla, Calif., Sealab II, ca. August 1965

Sen. Everett Dirksen (D-Ill.) with the Project Mercury astronauts, holding a model of the Mercury-Atlas, 1959. Standing (l to r) L. Gordon Cooper, Alan B. Shepard, John H. Glenn, Donald K. Slayton, and Gus Grissom; seat (l to r) M. Scott Carpenter, Senator Dirksen, and Walter M. Schirra

Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) with the Project Mercury astronauts, holding a model of the Mercury-Atlas,1959. From left to right, John H. Glenn (behind Shepard), Alan B. Shepard, Gus Grissom, Senator Johnson, M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, Walter M. Schirra, and Donald K. Slayton.

Project Mercury astronaut M. Scott Carpenter (USN), September 1961 (?). N.B.: the name tag on the USAF flight suit: �D. K. Slayton.�

Project Mercury astronaut M. Scott Carpenter (USN), September 1961 (?). N.B.: the name tag on the USAF flight suit: �D. K. Slayton.�

The White House, Yellow Oval Room, President and Mrs. John F. Kenny with the Project Mercury astronauts, May 21, 1963. This impromptu gathering for cocktails took place the day of the annual Goddard award and a postflight White House ceremony honoring L. Gordon Cooper after MA-9. From l to r (standing): Walter M. Schirra, Louise Shepard, President Kenny, Jacqueline Kenny, Rene Carpenter, Alan Shepard, Trudy Cooper, Scott Carpenter, Gus Grissom, Marje Slayton, Deke Slayton; from l to r (sitting): Jo Schirra, Betty Grissom, Gordo Cooper. The Glenn family was in Japan on a goodwill tour at the request of the Department of State and the USIA (Unit States Information Agency).

The White House, Yellow Oval Room, President and Mrs. John F. Kenny with the Project Mercury astronauts, May 21, 1963. Clockwise, from President Kenny are Scott Carpenter (back to camera) addressing Alan B. Shepard (seat), Gus Grissom, Trudy Cooper and Gordo Cooper; seat on sofa (backs to camera) Rene Carpenter, Marje Slayton, and Betty Grissom; Jo Schirra, Wally Schirra, and Louise Shepard are seat on the companion sofa.

The White House, Yellow Oval Room, President and Mrs. John F. Kenny with the Project Mercury astronauts, May 21, 1963. Clockwise, from Mrs. John F. Kenny (seat), Jo Schirra, Wally Schirra, Louise Shepard, President Kenny, Al Shepard, Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Rene Carpenter, Deke Slayton, Marje Slayton, and Betty Grissom. (This rare White House photograph shows Mrs. Kenny, then four months pregnant, smoking a cigarette. She would lose the baby in September 1963.)

Scott Carpenter, ca. 1968, Palmer Lake, Colo. The car is his 1964 427 Shelby Cobra. Photograph taken by Dr. M. S. Carpenter.

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�The Project Mercury astronauts at McDonnell Aircraft, July 1961, with Mr. James McDonnell and Walter Burke, Mercury program manager: (seat, l to r) Gordo Cooper, Deke Slayton, Wally Schirra; (standing, l-r) Gus Grissom, (Walter Burke), Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter.� (This photograph is number �McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis, #D4C6369 July 1961�)

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Scott (�Buddy�) Carpenter, (ca. 1935), with Lady Luck, Boulder, Colo.

The official NASA caption reads: �Project Mercury astronauts M. Scott Carpenter, mission pilot for MA 7 orbital flight, and John H. Glenn, Jr., examine new phonograph records which Carpenter receiv.� (This NASA photograph is #62-MA-7-71, �for release� on May 19, 1962.

Scott Carpenter, undat photograph, ca. 1963.

The official NASA caption reads: �Project Mercury astronaut M. Scott Carpenter at Cape Canaveral, Fla., with (l) Paul Baker and Dr. Robert Voas, Astronaut Training Officer, and discuss flight plan. Carpenter is about to begin a spaceflight simulation in the Mercury Procures trainer.� The official NASA photograph notes �For release on May 24, 1962.)

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M. Scott (�Buddy�) Carpenter, ca. 1934.

Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. (1947). Scott Carpenter is seat in the second row, fourth from the left.

Cmdr. M. Scott Carpenter (USN), surfacing from a dive off La Jolla, Calif., Sealab II, ca. August 1965

Scott Carpenter, with daughter Kristen, ca. 1961, Cocoa Beach, Fla.

The official NASA caption reads: �Project Mercury astronaut M. Scott Carpenter undergoing suit check by Dr. Carmault B. Jackson prior to environmental in the exhaust field of the Langley Research Center 9 x 6 Thermal Structures Tunnel to determine the effect of high-level noise on the astronaut and the Mercury spacecraft. In the background are Drs. Paul Laughlin and Stanley White.� N.B.: Carpenter, deadpan, pulling the physician�s tie in this official NASA photograph.

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The Carpenter and Williams families, postflight visit to the White House, May ___, 1962. President Kenny, in his rocking chair, with Carpenter (back to camera) seat to his left, with daughter Candace on his lap and sons Scott and Jay seat (l to r) on the opposite sofa, with members of the Walt Williams family.

Project Mercury astronauts at the Convair (?) missile facility, September 1959, l to r, Wally Schirra, Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordo Cooper. N.B.: Deke Slayton is absent in this photograph (illness kept him back at Langley, Virginia), suggesting this is the Convair visit to San Diego describ in For Spacious Skies, p. 208, and in other historical accounts.

Convair lobby, September 1959, Project Mercury astronauts signing in.

Ewa Beach, Hawaii

Ewa Beach, Hawaii

Ewa Beach, Hawaii

Ewa Beach, Hawaii

Ewa Beach, Hawaii

President John F. Kennedy, Yellow Oval Room, signing a photograph for the Glenns, then on a goodwill tour of Japan at the request of the Department of State.

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A poem, by one of the Life writers (signed �Any Mouse� or anonymous), after the publication of a December 1959 LIFE story on the Mercury capsule, nicknaming it the �garbage can.� (Rene Carpenter�s handwriting at top notes: �One of the Life writers � [Don] Schanche or ______________ (the one who committed suicide) � wrote this to the men after �Chariots.��

INTO EACH LIFE SOME �GARBAGE� MUST FALL

Once upon an evening dreary, as I pondered weak and weary,
Over some forgotten toe of yore,
Came a scratching, stumbling----bumbling,
Fumbling at my chamber door.

Entered then a thing called Life-man,
Sputtering, muttering through the door.
Raving, �Circulation - millions,
Going for 7 from 6.4�.

Then he wrote of smallish capsule,
Planned for Space, with man to fly.
Wanted nickname for the capsule.

�Whatchacallit?� was his cry.
�Call it �garbage can�?� he queried.
Seven stout hearts rose and swore,
�Never have we called it that, Sir!�
Quote the Life-man, �Never more�.

Into print then went the Life mag.
�Garbage can� included too.
�I am sorry�, said the Life-man,
�Someone goofed, the quote�s not true�.

�I have wronged you�, said the Life-man,
�And some penance you are due.
I�ll roll garbage can in springtime,
With my nose from here to you�.

Mr. Life-man, - now a LOOK-man (?)
Here�s your �can�, a wondrous thing.
Practice hard and get a nose-guard.
We�re looking for an early spring.

- Any Mouse
Circa 1959

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Another men-standing-together photographs. Scott Carpenter here standing second from the left with his VP6 crew, ca. 1953.

Homecoming in Hawaii, 1954. A universal moment for service families everywhere. Rene kneeling here has Jay, age 2, in arms. Scott with Scotty, age 4.

Class xx-49, U.S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, November 1949. Two members of the incoming class are ensigns, including Ens. M. Scott Carpenter (first row, far right). Jim Williford is in the second row, third from the right.

Class 13, Test Pilot School, U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md., September 1954. Lt. M. Scott Carpenter (back row, 2d from left�against the center door).

Telegram dated 1943 April 11 pm 7:38. �Bud� is 17-year-old M. Scott Carpenter. He had to travel to San Francisco from Boulder, Colo., in order to apply for the coveted World War II military assignment.

Scott Carpenter in a ca. 1934 photograph, with his Penzel-Mueller clarinet. The photograph was taken was taken by noted Boulder studio photographer Charles Snow at the Kelso home in Bergen Park, Colorado. The Snows lived near the Kelsos, who were Noxon family friends. The little girl in the photograph is unidentified.

Buddy Carpenter, age 3, in his new sunsuit.

Buddy aboard a train, age ___.

Buddy, age 5, posing in front of his mother�s cottage, Mesa Vista Sanitarium, 2121 North Stt., Boulder, Colorado.

Florence �Toye� Noxon Carpenter, with Lady Luck, 1936, Noxon family home, Boulder, Colo.

Buddy Carpenter with Lady Luck, his �seven eighths Arab mare,� ca. 1936.

M. Scott Carpenter, age 19, 1944, U.S. Navy apprentice seaman, V-12, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo.

M. Scott Carpenter, age 17, Boulder High School (class of 1943) senior portrait.

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M. Scott Carpenter (3d row, 4th from r.) What group picture?