On May 24th, 1962, the Aurora 7 space capsule, with astronaut Scott Carpenter and his Navitimer Cosmonaute aboard, splashed down safely in the Atlantic. The...
Experience the new Navitimer Cosmonaute, 60th anniversary edition.
On May 24, 1962, Breitling officially claimed the title “first Swiss wristwatch in space” after astronaut Scott...
It had a short life. But what a life! Astronaut Scott Carpenter's Navitimer Cosmonaut traveled into space before splashing down in the Atlantic on May 24th, 1962.
Carpenter's saltwater egress from the capsule, combined with an unplanned-for three-hour exposure to seawater, resulted in a pattern of corrosion that, today, looks like space itself....