We're all facing the Grim Reaper, ... It's like John Denver put it in one of his songs -- 'Live, live without care.'
"Malcolm Scott Carpenter" 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 (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn.
More Scott Carpenter on Wikipedia.The trails are open and have been repaired. For some folks, it will be their first chance back on those trials.
What people don't fully realize is that we view ourselves as expendable in the pursuit of a high purpose, ... If he or anyone else should perish, that's okay. We've recovered from it before and we will again.
Right on, ... I always thought of us as 'All for one, one for all,' like the Three Musketeers. There's an abiding camaraderie that pleases everybody. It's the life of the group.
It's interesting how at odds we were then with the Soviet Union.
They're all very competitive, ... but I've never heard any of them say anything bad about another.
At this point in the countdown, it seems appropriate to say to the crew of Discovery -- good luck, have a safe flight and to say once again 'Godspeed John Glenn,'.
[Early on, he repeated a famous line from his first flight --] Zero-G and I feel fine ... Godspeed, John Glenn.
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