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Schirra was born on March 12, 1923, in Hackensack, New Jersey, to a family of aviators.His paternal grandparents were Swiss; his grandfather Adam Schirra was born in the Italian-speaking village of Loco in Ticino, Switzerland, and emigrated with his wife Josephina (Marty) Schirra to the United States from Bavaria.
USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE-8) is a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship of the United States Navy, named in honor of Captain Wally Schirra (1923–2007), one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, who flew three times in space, on Mercury 8, Gemini 6A, and Apollo 7.
Gemini 6A (officially Gemini VI-A) [2] was a 1965 crewed United States spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.The mission, flown by Wally Schirra and Thomas P. Stafford, achieved the first crewed rendezvous with another spacecraft, its sister Gemini 7.
Schirra, one of the original "Mercury Seven" astronauts, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1945. He flew Mercury-Atlas 8 in 1962, the fifth crewed flight of Project Mercury and the third to reach orbit, and in 1965 was the command pilot for Gemini 6A. He was a 45-year-old captain in the Navy at the time of Apollo 7. Eisele ...
Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) was the fifth United States crewed space mission, part of NASA's Mercury program.Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., orbited the Earth six times in the Sigma 7 spacecraft on October 3, 1962, in a nine-hour flight focused mainly on technical evaluation rather than on scientific experimentation.
USNS Wally Schirra This page was last edited on 11 August 2019, at 03:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Jo Schirra, born in Seattle to Donald and Josephine Fraser, married naval aviator Wally Schirra in 1946. [8] She died on April 27, 2015. [8] Rene Carpenter and her children at a press conference. Rene Carpenter, born Rene Price, met Scott Carpenter when she was working as an usherette at a theater. [9]
Wally Schirra: Second of three 1 USN Stafford (left), Schirra (right). Tom Stafford: First of four 2 USAF Gemini 8: Neil Armstrong: First of two 2 Civilian [b]