Launching of T-AKE 8, USNS Wally Schirra, March 2009, San Diego, CA; ... Schirra participated in, and executed, maneuvers enabling crew members to perform exercises in transposition and ... To go to the sun, I keep kidding about it: At the speed of light, it takes eight minutes, but you have to go at night." - Wally Schirr...
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Wally Schirra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's first effort to put humans in space. He was the only pe...
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Astronaut Biography: Walter M. Schirra ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Captain Schirra was one of the seven Mercury Astronauts named by NASA in April 1959. On October 3, 1962; he piloted the six orbit Sigma 7 Mercury flight; a flight which lasted 9 hours, 15 minutes.
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Wally Schirra, the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, has died. He was 84 years old. Schirra's NASA career began with his selection as one of the original seven Mercury astronauts in 1959 and spans the period from Americas first tentative steps into space to the missions to the moon.
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March 12, 1923: Wally Schirra was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. ... One of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, Schirra went on to fly in Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, America's first three space programs. ... Read more about Wally Schirra.
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Wally Schirra, the original astronaut with the 'right stuff' to fly all three of the United States' early spacecraft, has recently launched his first mission into cyberspace: the debut of WallySchirra.com ... Veteran Astronaut Wally Schirra Launches into Cyberspace ; By Robert Z. Pearlman; posted: 23 March 2005; 09:09 am ET;
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Original Astronaut Wally Schirra Dies at 84 ; By Robert Z. Pearlman; collectSPACE.com; posted: 03 May 2007; 05:02 pm ET; ... One of the first seven 'original' American astronauts and the only one to fly Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, Walter M. "Wally" Schirra passed away on Wednesday, after having been...
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