American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)
Cmdr Malcolm Scott Carpenter (1 May 1925 – 10 October 2013), was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, and aquanaut. He was one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959, the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space.
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