Wally Schirra

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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1923 — 2007 Website,  Wikimedia, Wikidata
Walter 'Wally' Marty Schirra, Jr.; Walter Marty Schirra, Jr.
autobiographer, military flight engineer, United States Naval Aviator, test pilot, businessperson, astronaut, 

Dong Fang Hong 2, Ekran, 

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  Apollo 7 ⓘ
  first crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

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  Gemini 6A ⓘ
  1965 crewed United States spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program

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  Mercury-Atlas 8 ⓘ
  crewed spacecraft

United States, Ashkenaz, Calvinist Republic of Ghent, Chinland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Havilah, Kingdom of Martabam-hongsawatoi, Kingdom of Wolaita, Persia, Reman, Sikh Confederacy, Sweden, Tarshish, Dong Fang Hong 2, Ekran, 

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Mercury-Redstone booster at MSFC with officials (cropped)

Wally Shirra, page 14 of Wellcome News Wellcome L0071924

Delivery of McDonnell F3H-2 Demon flighters

Mercury 7 Astronauts Examine Their Couches

Wally Schirra in 1960

Delivery of McDonnell F3H-2 Demon flighters

Mercury-Redstone booster at MSFC with officials

Wally Schirra 1962 portrait

Wally Schirra during training before Mercury-Atlas 8 mission

Walter Schirra

• Mercury astronaut Walter Schirra dies, aged 84 - Wikinews article (English)
• Mercury astronaut Walter Schirra dies, aged 84 - Wikinews article (Dutch)
• Conley Interview with astronauts Walter Schirra and Frank Borman (NAID 126260) - item in the National Archives and Records Administration's holdings (English)
• Conley Interview with astronauts Walter Schirra and Frank Borman (NAID 126260) - item in the National Archives and Records Administration's holdings (Korean)

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	orbit		Apollo 7	Donn F. Eisele, Wally Schirra, Walter Cunningham, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Gemini 6A	Gemini spacecraft, Thomas P. Stafford, Wally Schirra, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Mercury-Atlas 8	Wally Schirra, crewed spacecraft, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
link	page		missing page@		Wikidata
commons	image		Mercury-Redstone booster at MSFC with officials (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		Wally Shirra, page 14 of Wellcome News Wellcome L0071924		Commons
commons	image		Delivery of McDonnell F3H-2 Demon flighters		Commons
commons	image		Mercury 7 Astronauts Examine Their Couches		Commons
commons	image		Wally Schirra in 1960		Commons
commons	image		Delivery of McDonnell F3H-2 Demon flighters		Commons
commons	image		Mercury-Redstone booster at MSFC with officials		Commons
commons	image		Wally Schirra 1962 portrait		Commons
commons	image		Wally Schirra during training before Mercury-Atlas 8 mission		Commons
commons	image		Walter Schirra		Commons