Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter was a U.S. Navy test pilot and one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts. On May 24, 1962, he piloted Aurora 7 through three orbits of Earth, but distraction with onboard experiments and a fuel shortage in the spacecraft's attitude-control system caused Carpenter to overshoot his planned splashdown point by roughly 250 miles, leaving him adrift and out of radio contact for nearly an hour before recovery forces located him. He never flew in space again, but went on to work with the U.S. Navy's SEALAB program, becoming the only person to have been both an astronaut and an aquanaut.