Scott Carpenter

On May 24, 1962, Scott Carpenter (Aero’49, HonDocSci’00) lifted off from Earth in NASA’s Aurora 7 space capsule mounted atop a Mercury-Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., climbing to roughly 165 miles in altitude. Scott was the fourth American astronaut to fly in space and the second to achieve orbit of Earth. Last May Scott participated in a two-day event in New York City in honor of the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Aurora 7 flight. He lives in Vail. See the feature on Scott in this magazine.