ERIE — No one will ever take the Boulder out of astronaut and favorite son Scott Carpenter, but Erie’s Spirit of Flight Center is doing its best to pull the space hero a little to the east.
Later this month, the museum will hold an event at the Erie Municipal Airport to raise money for The Scott Carpenter Project, in which a replica of his Mercury spacecraft and a life-size bronze statue of the man — the second American to orbit the Earth — will be made.
“What we’re trying to become is the destination of information about astronaut Scott Carpenter,” said Gordon Page, Spirit of Flight’s founder.
The 50th anniversary of Carpenter’s 1962 voyage in the Aurora 7 spacecraft was celebrated this past May, and Kris Stoever, Carpenter’s daughter, said her 87-year-old father is grateful that the local community — Boulder named a park after him — still embraces him.
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