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Astronaut Scoft Carpenler and his atfrnctive wio Rene.
By JOHN KENT
WITHOUT any prearrangement, America's
seven astronauts found themselves as
sembled in an unpretentious ranch home in a
newly developed area of Newport News, Va.,
one evening last month.
The home, already upset by plana for an imminent
move to Houston. Texas, belonged to Maj. Donald (Deke)
Slayton. Five hours before, he had been told that a
minor heart condition would prevent his being the sec
ond American to orbit the earth. That honor would go
to Lieut. Comdr. Malcolm Scott Carpenter, 37.
Like the other astronauts, Carpenter had been
stunned by the news. He immediately drove to his home
at Langley Air Force Base, picked up his ash-blonde
wife, Kene, and went on to the Slaytons'. The other
astronauts had done the same. Later, Scott Carpenter
said: "We all knew Marge and Deke would need people
around at a time like that people who really under
stood what had happened."
While at the Slaytons", Carpenter excused himself and
placed a call to his mother. Florence, in Boulder, Colo.
"I'm in," he said simply.
In recalling the conversation, Scott's mother remem
bers him repeating, "What a terrible-disappointment
for him (Deke). What a disappointment!"
"I almost felt like crying myself," Mrs. Carpenter
says. "It wasn't a long talk, but Scott always calls when
something big happens, like when the babies were born.
He has always been the kind to share things with me
and his family. He's the outgoing kind doesn't store
up things inside, I think that's why they picked him
for the Mercury project."
NOT EVERYBODY agrees with this mother's evaluation
of her "outgoing" son. Interviewers, for example,
have found him one of the more monosyllabic of the
astronauts. In most cases, though, Scott's reticence is
due to interviewers who have failed to ignite his sole
consuming interest flying. When it comes to this sub
ject, he can be articulate and, unlike the other astro
nauts, who have perfected a cold-blooded, scientific
exterior to Project Mercury, he can also be romantic
about its dangers and glories.
"As far as I can recall," says a National Aeronautics
and Space Administration official, "he has been the only
one to express the idea of 'giving his life' to the con
quest of space. He's also the only one who has talked
much about there being glory in this business, and he
isn't poised enough to cover up the fact he's human
and kind of enjoys it."
If Carpenter is less impersonal about the space pro
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family Weekly, April 29, 1S62