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Ronnie Walter Cunningham (March 16, 1932 – January 3, 2023) was an American astronaut, fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author of the 1977 book The All-American Boys. NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), he was a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission in 1968.
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.
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, ... Walter Cunningham (1932–2023)— Apollo 7;
FILE - Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham acknowledges the crowd before an Alliance of American Football game between the Orlando Apollos and the Atlanta Legend, Feb. 9, 2019, in Orlando, Fla ...
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.
The astronaut's attendance at their training events was voluntary. [103] The character of the Astronaut Office would only change after Mercury astronauts retired in the 1970s, and control passed to George Abbey. [89] The Mercury Seven wrote first-hand accounts of their selection and preparation for the Mercury missions in the 1962 book We Seven ...
Pete Conrad – naval aviator, astronaut (Gemini 5 and 11, Apollo 12 and Skylab 2) Robert Crippen – naval aviator, astronaut (STS-1, STS-7, STS-41-C and STS-41-G) Walter Cunningham – naval aviator and astronaut ; Ronald Evans – naval aviator, astronaut (Apollo 17) Owen Garriott – astronaut (Skylab 3)
This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: ... Gerhard Thiele, Heike Walpot, Ulrich Walter. 1988. February 12 – OS "Mir" Group (Afghanistan)