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1 day ago · THE FIRST SPEEDMASTER IN SPACE. Nearly two and a half years before the OMEGA Speedmaster was qualified by NASA for all its manned space flights, astronaut Wally Schirra wore his own Speedmaster chronograph into space on the Mercury Sigma 7 mission.
1 day ago · Mercury/Gemini veteran Wally Schirra, Eisele, and rookie Walter Cunningham were announced on September 29 as the prime crew for AS-205.
2 days ago · A second uncrewed Saturn V AS-502 flew as Apollo 6 in April 1968, and Grissom's backup crew of Wally Schirra, Don Eisele, and Walter Cunningham, finally flew the orbital test mission as Apollo 7 (AS-205), in a Block II CSM in October 1968.
4 days ago · Gemini 6A was the fifth crewed Earth-orbiting spacecraft of the Gemini series, having been launched after Gemini 7, with the intent of making rendezvous with Gemini 7 in Earth orbit. The astronauts on the 26 hour mission were Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford.
3 days ago · Crew: Wally Schirra, Tom Stafford Immediately after the launch of Gemini 7, crews on the ground began preparing for Gemini 6. Within two hours, both stages of the Titan II had arrived at Pad 19. Everything proceeded according to plan and at 9:54 am on December 12 th, 1965, the Titan’s engines ignited.
5 days ago · Wally Schirra, commander of Apollo 7, died in 2007, and command module pilot Donn Eisele died in 1987, each without ever commenting publicly on the topic. (Cunningham died in 2023.)
5 days ago · The "Mercury Seven" were John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald "Deke" Slayton. Armstrong, Borman, and Lovell were all chosen in Astronaut Group 2 in 1962.
