Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter
Malcolm Scott Carpenter,, 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. Carpenter was the second Americanto orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and Glenn. His death on October 10, 2013 left Glenn as the last surviving Mercury 7 member...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth1 May 1925
CityBoulder, CO
CountryUnited States of America
To be able to promote your son to captain what an honor. I'm so proud of you, ... The sky's the limit. Before we promote you to captain, I want one more thing from you: I want your final salute as a lieutenant.
Good luck, have a safe flight, and ... once again, Godspeed, John Glenn.
The Black Swamp, it was an awful place. It was a thick woods full of disease and mosquitoes, and people making their way through here reported being able to travel maybe only a mile a day.
As a public relations practitioner, it is a tremendous honor to be included on a panel of the top public relations professionals in our business.
They're all very competitive, ... but I've never heard any of them say anything bad about another.
There's going to be a scramble to turn this into a worm.
The trails are open and have been repaired. For some folks, it will be their first chance back on those trials.
Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.
I believe that Boot Camp will increase Apple's share in the desktop market. The increased market share may also make OS X a larger target for malicious code writers.
You need to have tools on your system that protect against viruses, you need to have updated patches for the system and you need user education. When you have all three, you'll be able to cut back on the problems.
It's interesting how at odds we were then with the Soviet Union,
I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I was interested in, while boxing was just hitting somebody or getting hit, which didn't appeal to me. But a demonstration of strength was okay, so I chose wrestling.
Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.
It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things. In the overall scheme of things, it proves that men can do about anything they want to if they work hard enough at it, and I knew that I could do it . . . and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to.