European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                European edition off j a w f a. M itmisimvhmlrtb1. A 77 $7" -0 f i for " � i 1 j_.3- ,?�.a-, v of to " of sva Home in 78 -64 ripes As army Navy air Force \ unofficial publication of the . Armed Force to Europe North Africa and the it Del Easl states Itte Static St. Golf is a above Hie new four window facility in City Hull where traffic violators soon will pay fines somebody painted win place show and  iumberli8, \ 5 anti doily 10 cent sunday Friday May 25, 1962   or. I e. J i ,.1 of of i _ 4 s i-."1? "j4"-Ter ieans inor and of torn in crowds cheered1 and shook4grand Central station Dent Kennel Fly watched onion at the Whitehouse with millions of 6lher Atner silent Kennedy issued t h 1 s it it 1 a. F scan people t will be fled by the Success shut Orbital it of i  Malcolm Scott enter and his sulks Quant  the of in the res 1th i puts on his space flight from a photo if blast off she was happiest woman alive a. Rarnoiit4r or iils. Too is. -. " l Trefle Carpenter watched her and soar if to Ort h thursday i Arteach near the launching a mends said he was in r. V1f Entwit probably tie Hap set woman alive to Day with the pretty,.blonde wife of astronaut it was reported were .�_.,_ i  Dij Jar a. Ino Fame into isee the Aurora 7 space to blast off irom Cape Ca it atop its Autis Booster Rock re Ter the Atlas fils appeared from High la Fife by the to i in i i =3fr,/ air a apparent a Serij Ioji private Dence at some to disclosed place die mrs. Carpener watched _ a of f " Bone Carpenter spellbound As her husband Rod upward atop the roaring rocket another astronaut s wife watched not far away with tears of disappointment to her eyes. She was mrs. Donald k. Slayton whose husband was scrubbed from the flight because of a slight heart condition. But Marjorie Slayton prayed Ith the rest of the people along the Beach for Carpenter s flight Tobe a Success. Mrs. Carpenter a Garcon Eye blonde is the first of the Astro nauts wives actually to witness blast Oil putting her husband into flight Ali col John a. Powers pull pc affairs officer of the National aeronautics and space administration said that mrs. Carpenter had chosen to watch As a private Citi zen and preferred seclusion. Orbits sea 3 hours on Rait after overshoot from press dispatches Cape canaveral astronaut Scott Carpenter roared into space from Here thursday and whirled around the world three times but overshot his target area in the at lactic by 200 Miles and gave recovery forces an anxious 40minutes before they found him. Carpenter was plucked from the Atlantic in Good Condi Tion after spending three hours in a fragile raft As a result of the overshot. His Rescue came approximately eight hours after launching. His first words on being rescued were i feel  will be taken to the Navy base at san Juan puerto Rico. There he will undergo a Complete physical examination and debriefing lasting two to three Days. A helicopter picked up Carpenter at 3 39 est 9 39get and flew him to the Carrier intrepid. There had been some fear earlier that perhaps the 37 year old Navy lieutenant commander had not survived the blazing re entry. Radio communications were blacked out during the most critical part of the re entry phase and no further Contact was made with Carpenter until he was sighted by a Navy plane. The communication with the capsule was shut off by an ionized heat layer built up when the capsule plunged into the atmosphere. Normally Cape canaveral can re establish  with the vehicle after the re entry and before Landing. However because of the 200-mile overshoot a the capsule had passed Over the horizon and out of communication Range when the re entry was completed gentleman named Carpenter it col John a. Powers Mercury spokesman reported to newsmen at Cape canaveral that a Navy p2v Neptune has reported sighting the space Craft floating in the Landing area. Alongside it was a life raft and sitting in it was a gentleman named  an air Force spokesman said two paramedics jumped into the water with a larger life raft of their own an equipment to ensure the Aurora 7 capsule stayed afloat the p2v plane earlier reported receiving an electronic signal from a Beacon aboard Carpenter s space capsule which was floating in the Atlantic Ocean 1,000 Miles South East of Cape  preparation for just such a situation Rescue aircraft were provided with special 3-foot-High, Quick inflating col Lars which frogman could secure to the capsule to keep i from sinking. Officials reported the nearest . Ship was 120 Miles from the Point where the spacecraft  destroyer Pierce reported there was a German merchant ship about 30 Miles from Carpenter s reported position but the Pierce headed for the scene and the German flip was told later its assistance would not be needed and cont Mue on its Way without diverting. Carpenter came Down so far from his planned Point of Impact that a . Navy destroyer the Farragut not eve Foont on Page  in