{"id":29505,"date":"2013-10-10T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T20:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=29505"},"modified":"2013-10-10T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T20:34:17","slug":"astronaut-scott-carpenter-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=29505","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Scott Carpenter Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MercuryCapsule.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29507\" alt=\"MercuryCapsule\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MercuryCapsule.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MercuryCapsule.jpg 150w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/MercuryCapsule-105x175.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>DENVER (AP Oct 10, 2013) &#8211; The second American to orbit the Earth and one of the last surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts has died.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Astronaut Scott Carpenter was 88.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His wife, Patty Barrett, says Carpenter died of complications from a stroke in a Denver hospice.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As an astronaut and aquanaut who lived underwater for the U.S. Navy, Carpenter was the first man to explore both the depths of the ocean and the heights of space.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carpenter gave the famous send-off &#8211; &#8220;Godspeed, John Glenn&#8221; &#8211; when Glenn became the first American in orbit in February 1962.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three months later, Carpenter orbited the Earth three times. He lost contact with NASA during the off-target landing but was found safely floating in his life raft 288 miles away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP Oct 10, 2013) &#8211; The second American to orbit the Earth and one of the last surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts has died. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Astronaut Scott Carpenter was 88. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 His wife, Patty Barrett, says Carpenter died of complications from a stroke in a Denver hospice. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29509,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505\/revisions\/29509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}