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Up for sale “Mercury Astronaut” Wally Schirra Hand Signed 3X5 Card This item is certified
authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Walter Marty "Wally" Schirra Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007),
(CAPT, USN), was an engineer, test pilot, and
one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project
Mercury, United States first effort to put humans in space. He flew the
six-orbit, nine-hour Mercury-Atlas 8 mission on October 3, 1962,
becoming the fifth American, and the ninth human, to ride a rocket into space.
In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the 6A spacecraft within
1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December
1965. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth
orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module.
He was the first person to go into space three times, and the only person to
have flown in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, logging a total of 295 hours
and 15 minutes in space. He retired from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Captain
and from NASA after his Apollo flight, becoming a consultant to CBS
News for its coverage of the subsequent Apollo flights. He
joined Walter Cronkite as co-anchor for the seven Moon landing
missions. Schirra died at the age of 84 on May 3, 2007 of a heart
attack while undergoing treatment for abdominal cancer.
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