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DENVER (AP) — The second American to orbit the Earth and one of the last surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts has died.
Astronaut Scott Carpenter was 88.
His wife, Patty Barrett, says Carpenter died of complications from a stroke in a Denver hospice...