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Topic: 11/11: Scott Carpenter and the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on Veteran's Day 2008
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KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 11-10-2008 04:25 PM
   
I understand that Scott Carpenter will be honored in some fashion at the Intrepid's festivities tomorrow for Veteran's Day.cSers all know this, but the Intrepid was the recovery ship for Aurora 7 on May 24, 1962. Big doings, with its restoration and reopening. |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 11-10-2008 06:11 PM
Hi Kris-That's great news and so appropriate. I saw your Dad on Friday at the show at KSC. I gave him a Mercury patch. He seemed so pleased with it. A true gentleman - but of course you know that. Tim |
Hawkman
Member Posts: 400
From: Union, New Jersey
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-10-2008 06:21 PM
It's nice that he is being honored on the Intrepid. I've been to that museum and it is a wonderful testament to the people who served on it....and those who were recovered on it.  |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 11-10-2008 07:09 PM
Kris-Do you know what time? -Lou |
KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 11-10-2008 09:14 PM
Lou,I apologize abjectly. I have nothing on times. Can't get a press release or anything. Kris |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42986
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-10-2008 09:20 PM
The museum's website shows that it is closed in the morning for a "private event". The doors open to the public at 2:00 p.m.. I think it is a fair bet that whatever they have planned with Carpenter will take place before then. |
KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 11-11-2008 09:06 AM
This CNN show airing today may have some footage of the event.And I see CNN is covering it now. |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 11-11-2008 12:34 PM
All-I recived an invitation to this several weeks ago but there was no mention of Carpenter, so I just filed away. You'll be glad to hear the Navy didn't forget about it. A group of four F-14's were doing a few low passes in the area (quite a act when you consider the main vector for Newark is right over my house). All in all it was a good show even if I missed standing on the deck of the Intrepid with the Dynamic Pioneer himself. N.Y.C. was still saluting their service 40+ years later. -Lou |
Mike Isbell
Member Posts: 551
From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 11-11-2008 02:38 PM
I heard on the WTOP radio station that Buzz Aldrin was also present at this event. |
thump
Member Posts: 575
From: washington dc usa
Registered: May 2004
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posted 11-11-2008 03:03 PM
Carpenter, Aldrin and Pres. Bush "tossed" a wreath into the Hudson River at this event honoring and remembering Veterans... |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 11-11-2008 04:53 PM
Missed it. Will any of this be aired on the NASA Channel or elsewhere? |
KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 11-11-2008 06:16 PM
I saw a snippet of film on my SlingBoxed MSNBC--showing the wreath toss. I saw two figures--the president and another man who looked like Carpenter from the back--but I suppose it could have been Aldrin.The CNN reporting was valiant and respectful, but I was pained by the correspondent's chirpy reference, as she introduced Aldrin and Carpenter to the camera, to the Intrepid's having "a role during peacetime!" It's like someone mislaid the cold war in the history of the USS Intrepid. |
Mike Isbell
Member Posts: 551
From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 11-19-2008 01:52 PM
The speach by President Bush and the tossing of the wreath were rebroadcast on C-Span. I thought it was a moving ceremony. |
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