Scott Carpenter was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1925. He went to school in Boulder and  attended the University of Colorado where he got a degree in Aeronautical Engineering.

In 1949 he joined the navy and became a pilot. He fought in the Korean War. In 1959 he was one of the original seven astronauts picked to go into space. In 1962 he was the second astronaut to fly a rocket ship. The rocket was called Mercury-Atlas 7 and he called his spacecraft the Aurora 7. He went around the earth three times and it took him 4 hours and 54 minutes.

He retired from the navy in 1969. There is a school in Boulder named after his spacecraft. It is called Aurora 7 Elementary School.

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