Watching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Carpenter’s wife, Rene, and their four children abandoned the television set to watch their husband and father become the fourth American astronaut to travel into space. Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr.,the sixth American astronaut, finally launched on May 15, 1963.Carpenter, the fourth American astronaut, was finally picked up by the USS Intrepid.
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