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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Former US astronaut Walter Cunningham, who was part of the Apollo 7 mission in 1968, has died at the age of 90, NASA said in a press... 04.01.2023, Sputnik International

Walter Cunningham, who flew to space on the first manned Apollo mission in 1968, has died at age 90

NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs confirmed Cunningham’s death to The Associated Press but did not provide further details.

In 1968 he was a member of the first manned Apollo mission, which buoyed an America shocked by a fatal capsule fire the previous year.

Walter Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA said.

Washington, Jan 4 (EFE).- American astronaut Walter Cunningham, who piloted the Apollo 7 lunar module, the first manned flight in Nasa’s Apollo Program, has died in Houston aged 90 years old. Cunningham died on Tuesday at a hospital in Houston from natural causes. “Walt Cunningham was a fighter pilot, physicist, and an entrepreneur – but, …

Cunningham piloted NASA's first manned Apollo mission in 1968.

NASA astronaut Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 7 mission.