Talk:Scott Carpenter

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Later career

I feel this page could use more information on Carpenter's later career, after retiring from the astronaut corps. Willy Logan 04:00, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

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Image

@Hawkeye7: Image of Carpenter holding a boy scout emblem, in case you want to include it in the imageless early life section. Kees08 (Talk) 06:13, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

carried un-sourced information from this page to another Wiki article

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

Can anyone please help me to corroborate the note in this article that says Scott Carpenter was a patient in the Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, CO (near Denver)? Thank you.

EmilW EmilW (talk) 05:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article is fully sourced. This fact appears on Burgess (2016) p. 200 Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:55, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]