I was twelve years old when Carpenter made his flight. What entertains me is that the article uses the name he commonly used, Scott, which was his middle name. I wonder if the writer even knew that his first name was Malcom? Another who used his middle name was Leroy Gordon Cooper. And then there was the man who refused to use his given name at all: Virgil Ivan Grissom.
They were all my boyhood heroes.
