Malcolm Scott Carpenter (born May 1, 1925) is an American engineer, former test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut. He is best known as one of the 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. Carpenter and Glenn are the last living members of the Mercury Seven.
Born in Boulder, Colorado, Carpenter moved to New York City with his parents (Marion Scott Carpenter and Florence [née Noxon] Carpenter) for the first two years of his life. (His father had been awarded a postdoctoral research post at Columbia University.) In the summer of 1927, young Carpenter returned to Boulder with his mother, then ill with tuberculosis. He was raised by his maternal grandparents in the family home at the corner of Aurora Avenue and Seventh Street, until his graduation from Boulder High School in 1943.
Upon graduation, he was accepted into the V-12 Navy College Training Program as an aviation cadet (V-12a), where he trained until the end of World War II. The war ended before he was able to finish training and receive an overseas assignment, so the Navy released him from active duty. He returned to Boulder in November 1945 to study aeronautical engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While at Colorado he joined Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. At the end of his senior year, he missed the final examination in heat transfer, leaving him one requirement short of a degree. After his Mercury flight, the university granted him the degree on grounds that, "His subsequent training as an Astronaut has more than made up for the deficiency in the subject of heat transfer."
SCOTT CARPENTER'S MERCURY FLIGHT
The Dogman Monsters Are Real
Bigfoot on the Hill - Stabilized
Scott Carpenter & Aurora 7
Zapped By a Bigfoot??
Scott Carpenter's Dogman Encounter Enhancements
Project Mercury 2nd Man in Orbit Scott Carpenter: Aurora 7 pt1-2 1962 NASA MA-7 15min
Gut Feeling Bigfoot - March 29, 2015
Bigfoot Behind Me AGAIN!
The Best Bigfoot Footage You Never Saw - Bigfoot in The Laurel a Closer Look Part II
Astronaut Scott Carpenter Speaks to President Johnson from a Helium-Atmosphere Decompression Chamber
Radical Moments at Scott Carpenter s001e001
Scott carpenter interview- talking about his expedition living underwater -1969
Boulder, CO - Scott Carpenter Skatepark Review
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Discovering part of an ancient Spanish treasure map, young Eldon Flowers dreams of finding gold. He could be rich, and he could also help Mr. Graff who is about to lose his home. Eldon secretly hopes this valiant deed will make him the hero he longs to be. With help from the other ButterCreamers, he embarks on a quest that will lead him to a concealed crypt in an old monastery, a deep cave hidden high in a mountain, and face to face with three greedy characters who will stop at nothing to find the treasure first. Eldon must often make difficult decisions that help him discover much more than gold. He finally sees himself as others do and begins to understand what being a hero really means.
Keywords: actor-playing-multiple-roles, armor, buried-treasure, catholic, catholic-priest, christian, church, dagger, diamonds, dual-role
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Unlike most gangs, the ButterCream gang does good deeds. Their leader, Pete, has to go live with his aunt in Chicago. But things don't go well in Chicago and Pete is changed when he returns. Soon Pete is hanging around with the wrong crowd. But the remaining members of the gang, especially their new leader Scott, refuse to give up on their friend Pete.
Keywords: aunt-nephew-relationship, boy, chicago-illinois, friend, friendship, gang, independent-film, reference-to-gandhi
Good kids, small-town fun, and unconditional love for a struggling friend.
Margaret Miller: I came to collect on that favor you owe me.::Lanny: You owe *her* a favor?::Eldon Flowers: That's worse than dog breath!::Scott Carpenter: Very funny!
Pete Turner: My aunt's alone with two little boys. I gotta go help her out. I'm a ButterCreamer, right?::Lanny: Yeah!::Eldon Flowers: You know it!::Pete Turner: Besides, it's the closest I may ever get to having a real mom. And she does make spaghetti with ketchup. Now, in my last official act as President, I would like to nominate Scott to be President of the ButterCreamers in my absence.::Scott Carpenter: Why do you want to nominate me?::Pete Turner: All in favor say aye?::Lanny, Eldon Flowers: Aye!
Pete Turner: Hey, Aunt Maria.::Aunt Maria: Well, hey, Pete. How'd you do in school today?::Pete Turner: Fantastic. Got an A on the old history report.::Aunt Maria: Pete, that's great. You know, if your parents were alive, they'd be so proud of you. Oh, you got a letter from Scott today. He's your friend, right?::Pete Turner: Yeah, he's the best.
Scott Carpenter: Hey, Mom, any mail for me?::Mrs. Carpenter: No, nothing from Pete. Sorry, Scott.
Lanny: I think somebody broke into Pete's house!::Scott Carpenter: Are you sure?::Lanny: No, but I left Eldon there to watch.::Scott Carpenter, Margaret Miller: Eldon?::Lanny: Could you see me sending him for help?::Scott Carpenter: Well, that's a good point.::Lanny: I promised him a big chocolate milkshake if he would just stay there.
Aunt Maria: Do you know what this is? It's a letter from your school. You've been expelled. It says you broke into another kid's locker!::Pete Turner: One of the other gangs set me up.::Aunt Maria: Ever since you were arrested, you've been blaming other people.::Pete Turner: I didn't do anything wrong this time.::Aunt Maria: Well, what you did do was pick the wrong friends, and ever since then you've been getting into trouble!::Pete Turner: I'll stop hanging out with them.::Aunt Maria: You've told me that before. I asked you here because I thought you'd be a good example for my children. Now all they talk about is being in a gang like you.::Pete Turner: I'll do better.::Aunt Maria: Help me to the curb with this.::Pete Turner: Where we going?::Aunt Maria: You're catching the bus back home.
Scott Carpenter: We're picking up some things for Mrs. Jenkins.::Mr. Graff, the store manager: Oh, ButterCream business. Did I ever tell you boys that my great-grandfather was one of the first ButterCreamers?::Eldon Flowers: Yes, about a thou...::Mr. Graff, the store manager: It was in the early days of the town after a raid killed many of the young men. The reverend asked some of the boys, including my great-grandfather, to help the widows by churning their cream into butter. It was hard work. The whole town started calling those boys the ButterCream Gang, and we've had one ever since. I've seen many come and go, but I think you boys are the best I've seen yet.
Scott Carpenter: What's this?::Margaret Miller: It's a picture of a gang in Chicago. I'm doing an extra credit report on inner-city gangs.::Eldon Flowers: Another report? Margaret, you already got an A. Why do you torture us?::Scott Carpenter: They look pretty mean.::Margaret Miller: That's because they're a real gang, not like you guys.::Eldon Flowers: I hope Pete doesn't run into them.
Scott Carpenter: Wow, you look different.::Pete Turner: So do you, man, but that's cool.::Scott Carpenter: When did you get back?::Pete Turner: Just now. Hey, how'd you guys even know I was in town?::Scott Carpenter: We didn't.::Eldon Flowers: We saw your grandfather yesterday, and he spaced out when we asked how you were doing.::Lanny: We thought something might be wrong.::Scott Carpenter: How come you didn't write?
Mr. Graff, the store manager: Why, Pete Turner, I almost didn't recognize you!::Pete Turner: Actually, I've changed my name to Pete Valdez. That was my mom's name.::Mr. Graff, the store manager: Well, Pete Valdez, I can tell you've been to the big city.
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Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, adultery, aerospace-film, aircraft-carrier, airplane-accident, astronaut, australian-aboriginal, aviation
By flying higher and faster than any other man had ever dared before, Chuck Yeager set the pace for a new breed of hero. Those that had just one thing in common...THE RIGHT STUFF.
How the future began.
America was looking for a hero who had what it takes to become a legend. America found seven of them.
[first lines]::Narrator: There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.
[about Yeager's bruised ribs]::Jack Ridley: How bad did you ding 'em?::Chuck Yeager: Well, you might say as I broke a couple of the sons-o'-bitches.
[repeated lines]::Chuck Yeager: Hey, Ridley, ya got any Beeman's?::Jack Ridley: Yeah, I think I got me a stick.::Chuck Yeager: Loan me some, will ya? I'll pay ya back later.::Jack Ridley: Fair enough.
Gordon Cooper: You boys know what makes this bird go up? FUNDING makes this bird go up.::Gus Grissom: He's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
Chuck Yeager: Hey, Ridley, make another note here, would ya? Must be something wrong with this ol' Mach meter. Jumped plumb off the scale. Gone kinda screwy on me.::Jack Ridley: You go ahead and bust it, we'll fix it. Personally, I think you're seein' things.::Chuck Yeager: Yeah, could be. But I'm still goin' upstairs like a bat outta hell.
Chuck Yeager: I'm a fearless man, but I'm scared to death of you.::Glennis Yeager: Oh no you're not. But you oughta be.
Alan Shepard: Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up.::Gordon Cooper: I didn't quite copy that. Say again, please.::Alan Shepard: I said everything's A-OK.
Pancho Barnes: What are you two rookies gonna have?::Gordon Cooper: Rookies? Now hold on, sis. You are looking at a whole new ballgame here now. In fact, in a couple of years, I bet you're even gonna immortalize us by putting our pictures up there on your wall. [unwittingly referring to the dead pilot memorial over the bar] What? I say somethin' wrong here?::Pancho Barnes: I tell you, we got two categories of pilots around here. We got your prime pilots that get all the hot planes, and we got your pud-knockers who dream about getting the hot planes. Now what are you two pud-knockers gonna have? Huh?
Chief Scientist: I agree with those who say we could launch a pod.::Lyndon Johnson: A pot?::Chief Scientist: A POD - a, uh, capsule. Now, we would be in full control of zis pod. It vill go up like a cannonball, and come down like, uh, a cannonball, splashing down into ze water, the ocean, vith a parachute to spare the life of the specimen inside.::Lyndon Johnson: Spaceman?::Chief Scientist: SPE-CI-MEN.::Lyndon Johnson: Well, what kind of spe-ci-men?::Chief Scientist: A tough one. Responsive to orders. I had in mind a jimp.::Lyndon Johnson: JIMP? Well what the HELL is a jimp?::Chief Scientist: A jimp. A-a-a jimpanzee, Senator. An ape.
Game Show MC: Major, Eddie here has a little problem with his girlfriend. Did you ever have a problem like that when you were 10?::John Glenn: Yes, I did, Bob. I liked a girl in my class, but all the other guys liked her too and she didn't pay any attention. But, I kept after her, Eddie.::Game Show MC: Did you finally get her to notice you?::John Glenn: Yes, I did. In fact, I finally got her to marry me.
SCOTT CARPENTER'S MERCURY FLIGHT
The Dogman Monsters Are Real
Bigfoot on the Hill - Stabilized
Scott Carpenter & Aurora 7
Zapped By a Bigfoot??
Scott Carpenter's Dogman Encounter Enhancements
Project Mercury 2nd Man in Orbit Scott Carpenter: Aurora 7 pt1-2 1962 NASA MA-7 15min
Gut Feeling Bigfoot - March 29, 2015
Bigfoot Behind Me AGAIN!
The Best Bigfoot Footage You Never Saw - Bigfoot in The Laurel a Closer Look Part II
Astronaut Scott Carpenter Speaks to President Johnson from a Helium-Atmosphere Decompression Chamber
Radical Moments at Scott Carpenter s001e001
Scott carpenter interview- talking about his expedition living underwater -1969
Boulder, CO - Scott Carpenter Skatepark Review
Scott Carpenter - Oslo Freedom Forum 2012
Bigfoot Licks Trail Camera - Possible Ketchum Study DNA Donor
Halo 4 Racetrack - Scott Carpenter Park
Pioneering Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dead at 88
Astronaut Scott Carpenter arrives to receive his pending degree in aeronautical e...HD Stock Footage
Scott Carpenter, Mercury Seven astronaut and American hero, dies at 88
Oral Histories: Scott Carpenter
U.S. Astronaut Scott Carpenter Honoured (1962)
Scott Carpenter Part 2 (One last Question)
Bigfoot Sighting - Eye Witness Interview
Nite Callers Bigfoot Talk Radio Interviews Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut (Scott Carpenter passed away today, October 10th 2013)
DCSportsFan - Scott Carpenter - TE Gonzaga Football
Britt Robertson & Scott Eastwood Interview - The Longest Ride
Scott Abella interview on 2013 Carpenter Fire, Mt. Charleston, Spring Mountains, Las Vegas
Jennifer Carpenter Craig Ferguson 2014 11 21
"American Sniper" Chris Kyle Interview - CONAN on TBS
Interviews With Dyllan Scott Carpenter - Disney World 2010
Interviews With Dyllan Scott Carpenter - Disney World 2012
Paw Patrol interview with Corbin
Mercury Aurora 7 - Scott Carpenter's Famous Flight | NASA Astronaut Space Program
Ant-Man "Scott Lang" Official Movie Interview - Paul Rudd
Interview with David Carpenter about GT500 "Jules"