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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Original caption: CAPE CANAVERAL - Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter, suited up and ready to go, has his straps adjusted prior to leaving for Pad 14 and the waiting Atlas and Mercury spacecraft Aurora 7. Carpenter was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral at 7:45 a.m. and became the second U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth.</li></ul></div>
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24 May 1962<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1962-05-24T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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