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Former US astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968 on the inaugural crewed Apollo mission that paved the way for the first human moon landing nine months later, died on ...
Astronauts Wally Schirra, Don Eisley, and Walter Cunningham were announced as the prime flight crew for the first Apollo mission.
Astronauts Walter Schirra, Donn E. Eisele and Walter Cunningham were the backup team for Apollo 1 and presumably will move into the void left by Grissom, White and Chaffee.
Auction house Christie’s in New York is set to offer up its most expensive watch ever – a limited-edition Richard Mille – alongside rare timepieces, such as ones that once belonged to a ...
April 13, 1970: The Apollo 13 disaster occurs. Three U.S. astronauts — Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise — are within reach of the Moon when an oxygen tank explodes.
"NASA's portion of the federal budget peaked at 4% in 1965," Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham said during congressional testimony in 2015.
Nasa astronaut Walter Cunningham, photo taken during the Apollo 7 mission. (Photo source: NASA) Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, one of the crew members in NASA‘s first Apollo Program, died ...
Former US astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968 on the inaugural crewed Apollo mission, died at the age of 90, NASA said. The flight paved the way for the first ...
Walter Cunningham, a civilian astronaut whose only mission in space, aboard Apollo 7, revived NASA’s quest to put men on the moon in the wake of a landing-pad fire that killed three astronauts, died ...
Former astronaut Walter Cunni­ngham. Cunningham joined crewmates Walter Schirra and Donn Eisele for the successful 11-day mission, which was conducted in low-Earth orbit as the first human test ...
Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew into space on Apollo 7, the first flight with crew in NASA’s Apollo Program, died early Tuesday morning (January 3, 2022) in Houston. He was 90 years old. ...
Walter Cunningham, a civilian astronaut who helped reignite America’s push to the Moon following the tragic Apollo 1 fire, died on Tuesday (Jan. 3). He was 90 years old. The last surviving member of ...