KCCI Des Moines morning anchor Scott Carpenter is departing from the central Iowa news station, he announced in a Facebook post on March 20. Carpenter is joining WVTM in Birmingham, Alabama, a station ...

VAIL — Astronaut and Vail resident Scott Carpenter died early Thursday morning. He was 88. Carpenter was the second American astronaut to orbit Earth and lived in Vail for more than 25 years. “He had ...

Former astronaut Scott Carpenter (C) shakes hands with former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn (L) at a 40th anniversary celebration of the Apollo 11 mission and the walk on the moon while on ...

Scott Carpenter, one of the last surviving Mercury 7 astronauts, has died at the age of 88. The second American to go into orbit and the fourth Mercury astronaut to travel into space, Carpenter is ...

BOULDER, Colo. Astronaut Scott Carpenter had an adventuresome spirit and was driven to know everything he could about the universe, fellow space pioneer John Glenn said Saturday at Carpenter's funeral ...

VAIL — It’s John Glenn’s turn to wish Scott Carpenter God speed. Scott Carpenter, a longtime Vail local, suffered a stroke last week. Scott Carpenter, 88, and Glenn, 92, are the last living members of ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. (CBS4)- Students at the namesake school for Scott Carpenter honored the late astronaut with a giant poster. Upon learning of his death, Scott Carpenter Middle School students ...

M. Scott Carpenter, a college dropout and local ne’er-do-well who became the second American to orbit Earth, wasn’t proud of the way his teen years took off. “The local papers that say I was just a ...

The second American astronaut to orbit the Earth was remembered by family and friends at a funeral service in his Colorado hometown. Scott Carpenter, 88, died Oct. 10, after suffering a recent stroke.

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Astronaut Scott Carpenter, one of NASA's original seven astronauts, has died at the age of 88. Carpenter was the second American to orbit the Earth. And I'm Robert Siegel. One of America's first ...