On May 24, 1962, NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter became the fourth American to go to space and the second American to orbit the Earth. Get more space history now! 👉 https://trib.al/J1LmnLh Carpenter was one of NASA’s first group of astronauts known as the "Mercury Seven.” He was the backup pilot for John Glenn, who first orbited Earth three months earlier. It was Carpenter who famously said “Godspeed, John Glenn” during that flight. The two astronauts had very similar missions, though Carpenter’

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