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Location: Indiana | I was honored to have a friendship with Scott who passed away today. I'm posting this here, on topic, because Scott was a musician... guitar and Uke, a real music lover, and was enamored with my Adamas. He knew Charlie from the aerospace world, and was amazed to find he was the father of my instrument.
Wonderful man, and a humble hero.
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | We've lost a true hero. He was one of an elite group, along with Glenn, Cooper, Shepherd, Grissom, Slayton and Schirra - the Mercury 7 astronauts. The first guys with the Right Stuff - real explorers and pioneers. I grew up watching the space program develop; I remember hearing Sputnik beeping over the radio (and couldn't figure out why my parents were so freaked out). Then these guys came along and every 10 year old kid like me wanted to be one of them. Yep, I wanted to be an astronaut, ignoring the impracticality of that wish, since I'm afraid of heights and get nosebleed on a stepladder.
You'll be missed, Scott. And it's a sad realization that time marches on and a grand era is ending...
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Sometimes the saddest thing about someone passing away is that I learn something in the obituary that I wished I knew when he was living. |
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Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter
