What is Scott Carpenter?
{{Infobox astronaut | name = Scott Carpenter | image = MalcolmScottCarpenter.jpg | type = [[NASA]] Astronaut | status = Deceased | rank = [[Commander (United States)|Commander]] ([[United States Navy|USN]], Ret.)<ref>[http://history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/carpenter.htm 40th Anniversary of the Mercury 7] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603135955/http://history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/carpenter.htm |date=2013-06-03 }} Retrieved August 29, 2008.</ref> | nationality = [[United States|American]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|5|1}} | birth_place = [[Boulder, Colorado]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2013|10|10|1925|5|1}} | death_place= [[Denver, Colorado]] | occupation = [[Test pilot]], [[aquanaut]] ([[SEALAB (United States Navy)|SEALAB II]]) | selection = [[List of astronauts by selection#1959|Group 1 (1959)]] | time = 4 hours, 56 minutes | mission = [[Mercury-Atlas 7]] | insignia = [[File:Aurora 7 patch.png|50px]] }} '''Malcolm Scott Carpenter''' (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013) was an [[Americans|American]] [[test pilot]], [[astronaut]], and [[aquanaut]]. He was one of the [[Mercury Seven|original seven]] astronauts selected for [[NASA]]'s [[Project Mercury]] in April 1959. Carpenter was the second American to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, following [[Alan Shepard]], [[Gus Grissom]], and [[John Glenn]]. He was married to feminist columnist [[Rene Carpenter]]. Carpenter had a [[stroke]] and entered The Denver Hospice Inpatient Care Center at [[Lowry, Colorado|Lowry]], [[Denver]], Colorado where he died on October 10, 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_24282964/scott-carpenter-dies-astronaut-boulder-aurora-7|title=Boulder astronaut Scott Carpenter dies at 88: 'He wanted to be the best'|publisher=Daily Camera.com|accessdate=November 16, 2013}}</ref> He was 88 years old.<ref>{{cite web|title=Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut Who Orbited Earth, Dies at 88|url=https://www.nytimes.com/