Wally Schirra
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican astronaut (1923-2007)
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.
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Schirra in the cockpit of his F-84 Thunderjet during Korean War, 1951
Schirra (2nd from right) and McDonnell Aircraft Design Chief, Dave Lewis at F3H Demon delivery (c. 1958)
Schirra during training before Mercury-Atlas 8 mission (1962)
Schirra during a Gemini 6 training simulation (1965)
Schirra as the Commander of Apollo 7 crew (1968)Awards 11
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William Halsey Jr.Also won Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey
Jacqueline CochranAlso won Harmon Trophy
Deke SlaytonAlso won National Aviation Hall of Fame
Bruce McCandless IIAlso won NASA Exceptional Service Medal
Mary Chapin CarpenterAlso won New Jersey Hall of Fame
Rodolfo Neri VelaAlso won International Space Hall of FameAbout this person
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.
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