Remembering space pioneer Scott Carpenter, dead at 88

Scott Carpenter, one of America's first astronauts, who served as a backup pilot for John Glenn, and then later became an underwater ocean explorer, died in Denver at the age of 88. Charlie Rose reports.

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Malcolm Scott Carpenter was a Navy test pilot when he was chosen by
NASA to become one of the first seven
American astronauts.
He was the second
American astronaut to be sent into orbit.

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Malcolm Scott Carpenter was a Navy test pilot when he was chosen by
N
NASA to become one of the first
American astronauts.

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NASA s first group of astronauts came to be known as the
Mercury
Seven.