Walter Cunningham, last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut, dead at 90
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90.
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Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90.
Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the Apollo 7 mission, an 11-day spaceflight that beamed live television broadcasts as they orbited Earth.
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died on Tuesday in Houston. He was 90.
He crewed the 1968 mission with Navy Capt. Walter M. Schirra and Donn F. Eisele, an Air Force major.
Walt Cunningham, who tested the Apollo command module in Earth orbit, has died. Cunningham was America's second civilian to fly in space.