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Walter Marty Schirra Jr. (/ ʃ ɜː ˈ r ɑː / shur-AH; March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space.
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.
Schirra was the first person to be launched into space three times, and the only one to fly Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. He resigned from NASA and retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of Captain in 1969, and joined CBS News as Walter Cronkite's co-anchor for the broadcasts of the Apollo Moon landing missions. [80] [81]
The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele and Lunar Module pilot R. Walter Cunningham (so designated even though Apollo 7 did not carry a Lunar Module). The three astronauts were originally designated for the second crewed Apollo flight, and then as backups for Apollo 1.
BIOGRAPHY: FRANK BORMAN THROUGH THE YEARS. ... Serves as command pilot on 14-day orbital Gemini 7 flight with James McDivitt that rendezvoused with Gemini 6 with Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford.
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.
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]
— NASA astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Sr. 2. “The years will rush by, and one day you will be watching your son as a man, and feeling incredibly proud that he is caring, safe, making a ...