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30 de abr. de 2024 · Wally Schirra, U.S. astronaut who flew the Mercury Sigma 7 flight (1962) and was command pilot of Gemini 6 (1965), which made the first space rendezvous. He was the only astronaut to fly in all three of the early U.S. crewed spaceflight programs—Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Learn more about Schirra in this article.
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9 de may. de 2024 · Captain Walter M. Schirra, Jr. was one of the first seven NASA astronauts named in April 1959. He was the only astronaut to have flown to space on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft, logging a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space.
9 de may. de 2024 · The only one of the seven to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, Walter Schirra logged 295 hours and 15 minutes in space. In 1965, he occupied the Command Pilot seat on the Gemini 6 flight, which successfully rendezvoused with Gemini 7, which had already been in orbit.
Hace 2 días · Wally Schirra flew aboard Sigma 7 on Mercury-Atlas 8 on October 3, 1962. The mission's main goal was to show development of environmental controls or life-support systems that would allow for safety in space, thus being a flight mainly focused on technical evaluation, rather than scientific experimentation.
5 de may. de 2024 · Three more one-man Mercury orbital flights, carrying astronauts M. Scott Carpenter, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., were conducted, the last being a 22-orbit mission in May 1963. Gemini and Voskhod
Hace 3 días · M. Scott Carpenter; L. Gordon Cooper; John H. Glenn ; Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom; Walter M. Schirra; Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Donald K. “Deke” Slayton
Hace 2 días · Mercury/Gemini veteran Wally Schirra, Eisele, and rookie Walter Cunningham were announced on September 29 as the prime crew for AS-205. [85] In December 1966, the AS-205 mission was canceled, since the validation of the CSM would be accomplished on the 14-day first flight, and AS-205 would have been devoted to space experiments and contribute no new engineering knowledge about the spacecraft.
