{"id":4876,"date":"2013-10-11T01:05:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2013-10-12T05:23:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T05:23:15","slug":"scott-carpenter-mercury-astronaut-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4876","title":{"rendered":"Scott Carpenter, Mercury astronaut, dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury 7 astronaut <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Carpenter\" target=\"_d\">Scott Carpenter<\/a>\u00a0has died at the age of 88:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/collectspace.com\/news\/news-101013b.html\" target=\"_d\">Scott Carpenter, astronaut-aquanaut, dies, was second American in orbit &#8211; collectSPACE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/11\/us\/scott-carpenter-mercury-astronaut-who-orbited-earth-dies-at-88.html?_r=0\" target=\"_d\">Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut Who Orbited Earth, Dies at 88 &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a 10 minute documentary about his Aurora \u00a07 flight:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ANSTBMQYvM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Here&#8217;s a nice gallery of images showing Carpenter and family and also middle class life in the early 1960s:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/life.time.com\/history\/scott-carpenter-rare-and-classic-photos-of-a-nasa-legend\/#33\" target=\"_d\">Scott Carpenter (1925 \u2013 2013): Rare and Classic Photos of a NASA Legend &#8211; LIFE.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury 7 astronaut Scott Carpenter\u00a0has died at the age of 88: Scott Carpenter, astronaut-aquanaut, dies, was second American in orbit &#8211; collectSPACE Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut Who Orbited Earth, Dies at 88 &#8211; NYTimes.com Here is a 10 minute documentary about his Aurora \u00a07 flight: Update: Here&#8217;s a nice gallery of images showing Carpenter and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scott Carpenter, Mercury astronaut, dies at 88<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1gE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4905,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4905","url_meta":{"origin":4876,"position":0},"title":"Photos-to-Space: Scott Carpenter Memorial Flight","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Photos To Space, a HobbysSpace sponsor, announces the Scott Carpenter Memorial Flight Send Your Photo To Space In Memory Of A Hero! 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