Showing posts with label Wally Schirra. Show all posts
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03 May 2007

Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra dies at age 84

Wally Schirra, the only astronaut to fly each of the first three American spacecraft died on Wednesday in California. [Photo, right: the-rocketman.com]

Shirra was the fifth American in space, piloting Sigma 7 , left, [Photo: NASA] on a six orbit flight that lasted nine hours. He also served as command pilot on Gemini 6 and on Apollo 7, the first orbital flight of the spacecraft that eventually took men to the moon.

Retiring from NASA and the United States Navy in 1969, Schirra had a successful career in business, finishing his life as a consultant.

Schirra launched a website, wallyshirra.com, in 2005.

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