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Space Ride Carpenter Gears for Scientific Tasks
Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter planned busy science duties aboard his space mission At Cape Canaveral the tasks included taking downward photos to study old meteor crater wounds and coaxing his left eye toward darkness to aid night sight for star and celestial observations Researchers discuss possible meteoroid evidence and metagalaxies while tests explore distance estimation from habitat and balloon tether experiments to illuminate space drag and rendezvous dynamics
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Alton Blakeslee
Associated Press
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Earth
Carpenter
John H. Glenn, Jr
Robert Voas
John A. O'Keefe
Goddard Space Flight Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Glenn