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| Above, Scott Carpenter entering his Aurora 7 Mercury capsule for his 1962 space flight. NASA photo. |
Fox News has reported that one of the two remaining original Mercury astronauts has died.
They reported:
Scott Carpenter, the fourth U.S. astronaut to fly in space and the second to orbit the Earth, died Thursday at a Denver hospice.
Carpenter’s wife, Patty, confirmed his death to Fox News. Carpenter, 88, of Vail, Colo., recently suffered a stroke.
Along with John Glenn, who flew three months before him, Carpenter was one of the last two surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts for the fledgling U.S. space program.
Left, Scott Carpenter.
With Carpenter's passing, only former Sen. John Glenn is the last of the Mercury 7 astronauts still living.
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