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The astronaut Wally Schirra dies at 84
Houston, USA - The only to fly in all three of NASA's earliest human-space programs
Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury seven astronauts and the only astronaut to fly in all three of NASA's earliest human-space programs - Mercury, Gemini and Apollo - died Thursday. He was 84 and lived in Rancho Santa Fe. Schirra, Italian origin, who was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, on March 12, 1923, was a Navy test pilot when he joined NASA in April 1959. Schirra, the only astronaut...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1073156
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency