[FPSPACE] VB: NASA Honors Apollo Astronaut Scott Carpenter

[Sven Grahn]

The headline is wrong, but in the text they correctly identified Scott Carpenter as a Mercury astronaut! 
Sven Grahn
_______________ Sidrubrik f?r vidarebefordran _______________ ?rende:	NASA Honors Apollo Astronaut Scott Carpenter F?rfattare:	NASA News <hqnews at mediaservices.nasa.gov> Datum:		2007 november 06:e 18:52 
Nov. 6, 2007

David E. Steitz
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1730
david.steitz at nasa.gov

Laura Holtman
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
303-370-6407
laura.holtman at dmns.org

RELEASE: M07-154

NASA HONORS APOLLO ASTRONAUT SCOTT CARPENTER

DENVER - NASA will honor Mercury astronaut and retired Navy Commander 
Scott Carpenter with the presentation of an Ambassador of Exploration 
Award for his involvement in the U.S. space program. Carpenter will 
receive the award during a evening ceremony on Nov. 10 at the Denver 
Museum of Nature & Science. The award will remain at the museum for 
display. Reporters who would like to attend the ceremony should 
contact Laura Holtman at 303-370-6407 by 3 p.m. MST Friday, Nov. 9.

The award is a moon rock encased in Lucite and mounted for public 
display as inspiration to a new generation of explorers who will help 
return humans to the moon and eventually travel on to Mars and 
beyond. The rock is part of the 842 pounds of samples collected 
during the six Apollo lunar expeditions from 1969 to 1972. 

NASA is giving the Ambassador of Exploration Award to the first 
generation of explorers in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space 
programs for realizing America's vision of going to the moon. NASA 
also is recognizing several other key individuals who played 
significant roles in the early space programs.

NASA chose Carpenter as a Project Mercury astronaut in 1959. During 
his historic flight in 1962, he orbited the Earth three times and 
manually controlled his capsule's splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. 
Following his space flight, Carpenter continued his naval career and 
conducted pioneering experiments as an aquanaut. For information 
about NASA and agency programs, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov 

To learn more about Scott Carpenter on the Web, visit:

http://www.scottcarpenter.com

	
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