# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wally-schirra
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:50:46.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wally-schirra"
name: "Wally Schirra"
slug: "wally-schirra"
description: "Walter Marty Schirra Jr. 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. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7, becoming the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space. In December 1965, as part of the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module and the first crewed launch for the Apollo program."
tagline: "American astronaut (1923–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Schirra_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1923-03-12"
deathDate: "2007-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.82443466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0771989/"
    handle:    "nm0771989"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.wallyschirra.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Schirra"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_M._Schirra"
    title: "Walter M. Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "والي شيرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "والى شيرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80_%D0%A8%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Уолтэр Шыра"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Уолтър Шира"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schirra"
    title: "Walter Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Schirra"
    title: "Wally Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schirra"
    title: "Walter Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schirra"
    title: "Walter Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Schirra"
    title: "Wally Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_M._Schirra"
    title: "Walter M. Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Schirra"
    title: "Wally Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Schirra"
    title: "Wally Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "والی شیرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schirra"
    title: "Walter Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schirra"
    title: "Walter Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Schirra"
    title: "Wally Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%A8_%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%9F"
    title: "וולטר שירה הבן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schirra"
    title: "Walter Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%88%D6%82%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%A9%D5%A5%D6%80_%D5%87%D5%AB%D6%80%D5%A1"
    title: "Ուոլթեր Շիրա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_M._Schirra_Jr."
    title: "Walter M. Schirra Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schirra"
    title: "Walter Schirra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ウォルター・シラー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0_%E1%83%A8%E1%83%98%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90"
    title: "უოლტერ შირა"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Уолтер Ширра"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110450"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3352819"
    title: "Wally Schirra"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump