Scott Carpenter

CAREER

1943-1945: Navy V-5 Flight Training Program

1945-1949: Student University of Colorado

1949-1959: US naval aviator; (1954) Navy Test Pilot School, Patuxent River, Maryland; (1954-1957) Naval Air Test Center; (1958-1959) Air Intelligence Officer 

ASTRONAUT ASSIGNMENTS

1959:   (09.04) Selected as one of seven original ‘Mercury’ NASA astronauts; Mercury training; (Jul) technical speciality area was in navigation and navigational aides; Mercury training

1960:   Mercury training

1961:   Mercury training; (29.11) named BUp Pilot MA-6 (Glenn); Mercury training

1962:   Mercury training; (Feb) BUp pilot MA-6 (Glenn); Mercury training; (15.04) named Pilot MA-7 replacing Deke Slayton who had been medically grounded; Mercury training; (24.05) Pilot Mercury 7 – ‘Aurora 7’, (4 hr 53 min); (Oct) Capcom MA-8 (Schirra).

1963:   (26.01) reassigned speciality assignment - Apollo lunar excursion training; monitoring the design and development of the Apollo lunar module (May) Capcom MA-9 (Cooper); CB technical assignments; (        ) Executive Assistant to the Director of MSC, Houston.

1964:   CB technical assignments; took leave of absence to participate in USN Sealab program; (16.07) broke his lower left arm from a motorcycle accident in Bermuda the compound fracture  disqualified him for Sealab 1 dives and removed him from NASA flight status.

1965:   (           ) Chief, Advanced Programs Branch, CB (through 1967); Training Officer, Officer-in-Charge of diving teams; USN Deep Sea Submergence Systems Project (Sealab II); Sealab training; (28.8-13.10) Senior Team Leader Sealab II aquanauts, during 45-day experiment he spent 30 days in Sealab habitat (spoke to Gemini 5 astronauts in orbit  Aug 29, from Sealab ).

1966:   (03.02) Branch Chief, Advanced Programs Branch, (associated with the CB Apollo Program Office); continued liaison with USN and point of contact for underwater EVA training

1967:   Chief, Advanced Programs Branch, CB; liaison with USN and point of contact for underwater EVA training; (10.08) resigned from NASA and returns to USN

SPACEFLIGHT RECORD

POST ASTRONAUT EXPERIENCE

10 Aug 1967 – 1 Jul 1969: Assigned Navy Deep Submergence Systems Project as assistant for aquanaut operations during Sealab III; also directed UISN Saturation Diving Program; (01.07.69) retried from USN with rank of Commander

1969 –date: Engineering, aeronautical, environmental consultant and author. He founded Sear Science Inc, a venture capital corporation designed to better utilise ocean resources; (1983) underwater consultant for the ‘other’ James Bond film ‘Never Say Never Again’ starring Sean Connery. His autobiography ‘For Spacious skies’, co-written with his daughter, was published in January 2003.