NEWS AND BLOG MENTIONS

Astronauts pay respects to 'space chimps' - CNN.com - 5/ 1/09

Astronaut recalls riding the centrifuge - Bucks County Courier Times 4/24/09


Cmdr. Scott Carpenter to speak at the Open House for the Johnsville Centrifuge and Science Museum on Friday, 24 April. - press release

SCOTT CARPENTER TO SPEAK WITH NYC YOUTH AT INTREPID SEA, AIR & SPACE MUSEUM - 4/23/09


April 9th, 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the Mercury 7 Press Announcement.

Click here for the Nasa interactive presentation of this historic event including transcripts and video of the 1959 press conference in Washington D.C.

also visit Project Mercury page




San Diego Air and Space Museum 45th Hall of Fame Induction

Scott Carpenter honored at the Veterans Day 2008 rededication ceremony for the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum in New York

Celebrity Astronauts Offer Experiences and Artifacts in Charity Auction

Click here for SDASM Hall of Fame portraits.

The Governator congratulates the SDASM inductees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK81jQOFBi0

Writing from The Scott Carpenter Basin in the Florida Keys, Aquanaut Chris Martens updates his Mission Log while aboard the Aquarius (NOAA).- 10/16/08

"Early Astronaut and Cosmonaut Watches" on the Hardware and Flown Items forum of collectSPACE. Click here to read an interesting thread that discusses, among other things, Scott Carpenter's famous Breitling Navitimer, reconfigured in 1961 for space flight in May 1962 as The Cosmonaute. - 10/16/08

Project Mercury astronauts trained in the spring of 1959 with the U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Unit Two (precursors to the Navy SEALs). They focused on water egress and survival operations but also addressed neutral buoyancy training the zero-g conditions expected in space flight. See "Project Mercury UDT Training," on the collectSPACE forum, Mercury-Gemini-Apollo.