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Originally posted by cash78mere
well, i FINALLY found the letter that AXO nationals sent me. here is the proof. here is an excerpt:
AXO has exceptionally good relations with astronauts. One of the first 7 astronauts, Lt. Comdr. M. Scott Carpenter, is the son of the late Florence Noxon Carpenter, Nu-Univ. of Colorado. Scott Carpenter also had 4 AXO aunts.
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Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter (Beta Kappa, University of Colorado) is one of several Delts who have been in space. As I understand it, Brother Carpenter is/was kind of a "free spirit," unlike most of the original seven. And, as I recall, he took the second U.S. space flight, a sub-orbital one which lasted about fifteen minutes -- very much like Alan Shepard's. (I think I'm right about this, but am doing it most from memory, and could be mistaken) I think that he missed (don't know whether it was his fault or some primitive computer) the prescribed landing area by over a hundred miles. The were worried for quite a while that he had burned up on re-entry or something.
They found him a few hours later floating around in his capsule and having a good time.
It is absolutely untrue that, when found, he was wearing his Delt badge and drinking a bottle of Rolling Rock. I think.