LA JOLLA, Calif. – Pioneering astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra, the only man who flew in all three of America’s first human space projects – Mercury, Gemini and Apollo – died Wednesday night. He was ...

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Walter “Wally” Schirra Jr., who followed his barnstorming parents into the sky as a Navy combat pilot and the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs, has died. He was ...

The Mercury Seven have been diminished again. The death of pioneering astronaut Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. last week, at the age of 84, leaves only two members of America's original corps of ...

Today is a sad day for NASA and our country, as we mourn the passing yesterday in California of astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra. With Wally’s passing, we at NASA note with sorrow the loss of yet ...

The Apollo-Soyuz mission, amid the Cold War, broke new ground in space cooperation when an American capsule docked with a Soviet craft 140 miles above the earth. By Richard Goldstein He commanded the ...

Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7, the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut which explores ...

Military Sealift Command accepted delivery of dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra in San Diego recently. The ship was built by General Dynamics NASSCO. Schirra, named in honor of astronaut ...

SAN DIEGO -- Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., who as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts combined the Right Stuff -- textbook-perfect flying ability and steely nerves -- with a pronounced ...