On 2013-10-10 18:57, lucas vigor wrote:
Scott Carpenter. True hero.
Roger that!
It appears Glenn receives the "Last Man Standing" award.
The Mercury Program Astronaut Pilots
Left to right:
Malcolm Scott Carpenter (1925–2013), U.S. Navy (1 flight)
MA-7 (Aurora 7) – May 1962 – Second orbital Mercury mission
Leroy Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper, Jr. (1927–2004), U.S. Air Force (2 flights)
MA-9 (Faith 7) – May 1963 – Final Mercury mission, first American mission to last more than a day
Gemini 5 - August 1965 – Command Pilot – First eight-day space mission, first use of fuel cells
John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (1921–present), U.S. Marine Corps (2 flights)
MA-6 (Friendship 7) – February 1962 – First orbital Mercury flight; Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth
STS-95 Discovery – October 1998 – Payload Specialist – Spacehab mission, Spartan 201 release; Glenn became the oldest person in space
Virgil Ivan 'Gus' Grissom (1926–1967), U.S. Air Force (2 flights)
MR-4 (Liberty Bell 7) – July 1961 – Final suborbital Mercury flight; Liberty Bell 7 sank after splashdown and was not retrieved until 1999
Gemini 3 – March 1965 – Command Pilot – First manned Gemini mission, first manned mission to change orbital plane; Grissom became the first person to be launched into space twice
Apollo 1 – January 1967 – Commander – Killed in a fire during a launch pad test one month before the launch
Walter Marty 'Wally' Schirra, Jr. (1923–2007), U.S. Navy (3 flights)
MA-8 (Sigma 7) – October 1962 – Third orbital Mercury flight
Gemini 6A - December 1965 – Command Pilot – First rendezvous in space, with Gemini 7
Apollo 7 - October 1968 – Commander – First manned Apollo mission; Schirra became the first person to be launched into space three times and the only person to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (1923–1998), U.S. Navy (2 flights)
MR-3 (Freedom 7) - May 1961 - First manned Mercury flight; Shepard became the first American in space
Apollo 14 – January 1971 – Commander – Third manned lunar landing; fifth man to walk on the Moon
Donald Kent 'Deke' Slayton (1924–1993), U.S. Air Force (1 flight)
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – July 1975 – Docking Module Pilot – First joint American–Soviet space mission, first docking of an American and Russian spacecraft
Sad day.
