Wally Schirra

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Birth Name: Walter Marty Schirra Jr.

Born: 12 March 1923 Died: 3 May 2007

Country of origin: United States

Height: 5' 10"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Josephine Cook Fraser

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Description: Wally Schirra (Captain, USN, Ret.), was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put human beings into space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7. At the time of his mission in Sigma 7, Schirra became the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space. In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gem ... (more)