Scott Carpenter welcome home ceremony. 1962.

Carpenter, Florence Noxon, 1900-1962.

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Project Mercury (U.S.)

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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury...

McNichols, Steve.

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Carpenter, M. Scott, 1925-2013

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Scott Carpenter was born in Boulder, Colorado, on May 1, 1925, the son of research chemist Dr. M. Scott Carpenter and Florence Kelso Noxon Carpenter. He attended the University of Colorado from 1945 to 1949 and received a B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering. Carpenter was commissioned in the U.S. Navy in 1949. He was given flight training at Pensacola, Florida and Corpus Christi, Texas and designated a Naval Aviator in April, 1951. During the Korean War he served with patrol Squadron Six, fl...

Carpenter, Kristen A.

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Boulder Chamber of Commerce

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In 1969, the Boulder branch of the Ball Brothers Research Corporation was renamed Ball Corporation Aerospace Systems Division. From the description of Boulder businesses : buildings. [undated] (Boulder Public Library). WorldCat record id: 427304737 Hikes at the Arapaho Glacier were held for a number of years. The Boulder Chamber of Commerce organized the hikes annually on the second Sunday in August from 1939 through 1976. Thousands of people participated in this public even...

Powers, John A., 1922-1979

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John A. Powers (b. Aug. 22, 1922, Toldedo, OH–d. Dec. 31, 1979, Phoenix, AZ), better known as Shorty Powers, was an American public affairs officer for NASA from 1959 to 1963 during Project Mercury. A U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and war veteran, he was known as the "voice of the astronauts," the "voice of Mercury Control," and the "eighth astronaut."...

Reich, Francis W. 1906-1983.

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Carpenter, Rene Price.

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Morse, George.

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Carpenter, Jaymee

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