Thursday, October 10, 2013

Scott Carpenter, R. I. P.

NYTimes.com: M. Scott Carpenter, whose flight into space in 1962 as the second American to orbit the Earth was marred by technical glitches and ended with the nation waiting anxiously to see if he had survived a landing far from the target site, died on Thursday in Denver. He was 88 and one of the last two surviving astronauts of America’s original space program, Project Mercury.

1 comment:

Jerry House said...

Soon there may be no heroes left.