Word: aquanaut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scott Carpenter, 58, moved on from the Mercury program to become an "aquanaut" in the Navy's Sealab program. Since then he has pursued various oceanographic ventures but admits to having "difficulty finding a good, solid third career." Today he lives in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles and works part-time giving speeches and consulting. He and his second wife, Maria Roach, 36, have two young sons, and Carpenter describes himself as mainly a "father-in-residence...